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    "content": "Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget, we are proposing an amendment to make sure that we cascade the same to the county level so that at the county level---. If it is Mbooni, Makueni or Kajiado, where we know that in some areas we do not have contractors or business people with capacity, when we get contractors with capacity from other counties, they must make sure that they get also those within that region. The money which was meant not only to deliver services there, but also to empower that region economically, finds its way into that county. Our Committee will try to bring some amendments. We will try as much as possible to see that we can fight corruption through this Bill. Currently, you hear that we have the technical and then financial aspects to be evaluated. From the outset, all those who were participating were qualified then automatically it means that there is something. Through our Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget, we will bring an amendment to make sure that the technical and financial aspects carry the same weight so that it can either be 50 per cent and the other one 50 per cent. That way, people will not use the Act to abuse or make sure that they corruptly give jobs to their favoured people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is also another issue which came out very well from the public; for those who have participated in tenders and lost, sometimes they get notification letters when, already, those who were awarded the tender are on site or executing their jobs. Out of that, it came out very well. It will always be good that, at least, those notifications are done on time so that even the ones who are awarded are aware that already if there were some complaints, then they have enough time. For those who have some complaints to lodge, they will not say that they were not given sufficient time. The winners of the tenders will also be notified. You also find some funny scenarios whereby when the evaluations are done, we have always had other people complaining that their documents were plucked off, some papers were missing and you could even hear that a certificate of incorporation was missing. Those are documents which you could get straight away from the Registrar of Companies and you are able to see whether the company is genuine or not. For the PPRA, I believe it will function as per the Bill and will make sure that there is fairness anytime a complaint is made. The fact that we will also have them devolved into regions will make it very easy so that any person who had maybe a complaint in Mandera will not necessarily need to come to Nairobi for the complaint to be heard. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I support the Bill. It is a good Bill. It is very timely and I urged the whole House to support it."
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