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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Yes. Just very quickly so that Members can understand what this amendment is all about because this is key one for some of us. Clause 4 differentiates between disadvantaged groups, micro, small and medium enterprises as it was earlier by specifying that candidates as disadvantaged groups must be protected. This is a clause that deals with preferences and reservations. Clause 5 provides that instead of just saying that procuring entity shall deserve a prescribed percentage of its procurement budget of the disadvantaged group, it is prescribing that it is 30 per cent. This goes hand in hand with Clause 10 which states that every financial year, every procuring entity shall ensure 30 per cent of the procurement value of every financial year is allocated to youth, women and persons with disability. It is specific in terms of saying its value. Not the number of contracts or just the disadvantaged groups generally as the Senate did last time, rather it is youth, women and people with disability. Clause 8(iia) has given a preference of above Kshs 500 million where the Cabinet Secretary is mandated to set a threshold where only Kenyan contractors can compete for tenders. That threshold that she or he will set cannot be more the half a billion. We hope that it goes higher so that the Cabinet Secretary can prescribe that every contract that is above Kshs 600 million, it can only be bided for by Kenyan contractors. This is to protect Kenya and to buy Kenyan. On Clause 11, we have seen that with these preferences of 30 per cent for youth, women and people with disability, some people have been misusing it and registering businesses purporting to be youth. Every procurement entity will ensure that the money they pay out to a youth, women or people with disability business it is paid into an account where the mandatory signatory is a youth, woman or a person with disability. If beyond that the youth goes to take that money and gives it to the sponsor, they will be on their own because we have done as much as we can. Clause 12 is the issue of monitoring and evaluation. Instead of just stating that these entities from the national to the county level must give 30 per cent, there must also be monitoring and evaluation. After every six months, each and every entity must give a report to PPOA stating how many contracts and of what value they have given to the youth, women and persons with disability. After that PPOA gives a report to the committee in Parliament charged with equalisation of opportunities, which incidentally I happen to chair, and thereafter we bring a report to this House to show which governors The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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