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    "content": "given as grants and even the Ministry gave guidelines, the civil servants will never let you. They have found a way to say that these things are against procurement, while when we begun the CDF, I would cut a cheque for Kshs1 million and form a project management committee. The people cannot steal from themselves, but the moment you get somebody from Gem and take him to Kwale to look over the procurement process, he will steal. They do! The problem is that somebody from Gem cannot care about somebody from Kwale more than somebody from Kwale can care about themselves. That is a fact. The whole spirit of CDF was to cut out the middleman who the Executive could not check. The Executive was good enough 48 years ago when our population was 13 million. Now, we are 40 million for Christ’s sake. It is very important that we follow what can make us better and not things that are retrogressive. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, until the 1990s, we used to have a Ministry of supplies, such that the Ministry of Roads, for example, in Siaya, would get delivery of boxes of pens. Now, these Government departments at the district level just spend time doing procurement. Why on earth would you want to procure a piece of paper and yet, the kiosk is there? It is absurd but I think in the new dispensation, we must cut out the so-called supplies officer and do something simple which has no middleman, because the middleman is the problem in our economy. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that other hon. Members want to contribute. I thank the Committee for a job well done. Let us hope they will continue doing the good work. I beg to support."
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