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    "id": 619438,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/619438/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Someone just sits somewhere and decides that now I need more and probably your guess is as good as mine why this would happen. In Rahimtulla, for example, some second hand furniture which was bought from PricewaterHouseCoopers (PwC) was bought through direct procurement. This is something that is not acceptable. In fact, direct procurement has a provision but with clearly defined parameters. The reasons which would result into direct procurement are spelt out if that is the only supplier for those items. Can you tell me that there can only be one supplier of furniture and it is second-hand? As a matter of fact, the furniture is even second hand. A deposit of six months was made in advance to a vendor. When we rent our houses, I have never heard of a deposit for six months. Probably the highest I have heard is about two months. Six months is giving resources of Government irregularly, illegally and contrary to the requirements of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. The Containerized Data Centre is another one. Logically, in any institution, whether private or public, you require that the user departments are the ones to initiate the transaction. They are supposed to define what they want. They are supposed to inform the procurement department or any other approving authority that we need this, but for the containerized data there was no request from the user department. Someone just decided that it was necessary and Kshs106 million was spent on that. The vendor even charged Kshs18 million for the three-year warranty. We have all got involved where warranty is required. The question is: Do you, again, pay for a warranty? When I buy, I expect a guarantee from you that whatever I am buying will serve me for some time. Do I, again, pay you for the same? Excuse me, Hon. Speaker, for one minute. There was change even in the Clerks of the Committee, but we have contradicted ourselves. We are complaining that the Chief Justice and the JSC allowed the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary to do illegal things. However, when they act now, we say: “They are interfering”. In my view I think the JSC needs to rein more on the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary so that---."
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