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    "id": 545874,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/545874/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Langat",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 384,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
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    "content": "We are saying that all tenders exceeding Kshs5 billion are supposed to be cleared by the Attorney-General and the Cabinet Secretary responsible for that Ministry. The Committee felt that since it comes from the Ministry, it can only be cleared by the Attorney-General to avoid bureaucracy. That section also says that any contract cleared under subsection 2 shall be approved by the Cabinet before it is signed. After the contracts which are worth Kshs5 billion have been taken to the Attorney-General, they are then taken to the Cabinet for approval. Since the Attorney-General will look at the legality of the contracts, we can delete that subsection and provide that each Cabinet Secretary shall brief the Cabinet on such tenders as and when they occur. If we say that the Cabinet should sit and approve the contracts, that would cause a lot of bureaucracy. That is the thinking of the Committee."
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