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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to agree with the last point that Hon. ChrisWamalwa has just raised. I know in the same Act, we agreed that the items that can be procured or made in the country should be procured in this country. We should not import something like furniture from abroad. With what Chris is saying then we need to look at it in a more critical way, where professional bodies are concerned because most of the people who will go into procurement might be members of any body. I totally agree with what Chris is saying. That notwithstanding the amendments by the Senate, especially to Clause 176 on relevant professional bodies, that a procurement entity can complain to a professional body where that contractor has been under is important. If you go to counties, there are so many projects which have been started and they have not been completed by the contractor. On this one I want to agree that it has been raised by what has been looked into under Clause 124. You will find that as you are filling in the tender bids, most of the contractors are corrupt in the sense that they put a lot of money for the initial process. For instance, if you are building a house, they put a lot of money under the foundation, structural work and the roofing. Then they put very little money for finishing. So when it comes to finishing, they do not have money and they have already been paid over 90 per cent. So we need, as it has been indicated under Clause 124, evaluation on the financial and technical capacity of the contractors. We need to look at that and even put a law because most of the projects have stalled because the contractors have put 90 per cent at the initial stages and only 10 per cent for the finishing. You cannot clear that."
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