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    "id": 65983,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/65983/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kinyanjui",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Roads",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 48,
        "legal_name": "Lee Maiyani Kinyanjui",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, I beg to reply. (a) The decision to adopt leasing of vehicles for Government Ministries is part of the new transport policy that was approved by the Cabinet due to the unsustainable increase in expenditure on transport. This is a viable means of promoting business growth and for providing to Government cheaper access to vehicles for enhancing service delivery. (b) The implementation of the leasing policy is considered to be a more cost- effective approach. The anticipated benefits include realization of savings on insurance, financing, maintenance and fleet management, greater efficiencies and shifting of expenditure from capital cost on the vehicles into critical areas of development and service delivery. The economies of scale will be realized in the larger number of vehicles to be leased and the lower cost to be achieved from a reduction in the number of vehicle models and makes. (c) The Government is implementing the leasing policy in accordance with the provisions of the public procurement and Disposal Act of 2005. Subsequently an Expression of Interest (EOI) notice was issued on 16th December and has already been evaluated and 15 firms have already been shortlisted. They will soon be requested to present their proposals."
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