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    "content": "has provided in great detail, transitional clauses on page 120 of the Third Schedule; a lot of the procurement proceedings commenced under the previous law have been reserved. A lot of the things, including Section 51(2) on records of procurement, Section 67 with contracts formed before the commencement, Section 130 with regard to contracts formed before the Act, Section 140 with regards to contracts formed before the Act are all very clear. Section 43 regarding sections formed before the Act, are all covered. This Bill is well drafted because I have covered transition, the things that are weak in the previous Act and the questions that have bothered Kenyans about the PPOA. We now have a new name and we hope that we have not just baptized it with another name called PPRA and yet it becomes as they famously say, “new wine in old wine skin.” I am hoping that is not what has or will happen. However, in any event even if it happens, this law has proposed methods of dealing with the faster procurement methods and the things that are ailing our economy. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the argument going on even in my own county is that procurement could not be done because of the timelines, money has been returned and all those little arguments which do not have a basis in law would be addressed in this Bill, so that no governor of a county government will stand up one day, during the day, in front of the citizens of this Republic and say that they were unable to procure good and services that would help their counties because of timelines, or any other impediments that were there in the other Act which has been dealt with. I pray that we do not have the excuses that I have seen here in terms of Statements by contractors, like one who has been building a road to my home town in Mbooni, where he claimed that there was delay of 68 weeks because of post election violence yet we did not have post election violence in Mbooni. That is why I urge all Senators to support this Bill because those excuses will now become a thing of the past. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to second."
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