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    "id": 780017,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. This Committee has a special mandate beyond what is in the standing orders. The Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act mandates this particular Committee in charge of equalization to receive a report every six months from the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) on compliance by county and national governments on the 30 per cent rule for procurement for youth, women and Persons with disability. That is not being adhered to across the country. Very few governors are giving young people, women and persons with disability contracts. I would like to request the Committee to go beyond this statement and sit down with the relevant department; to call PPRA and table a report here. Let us see the list of shame of those counties that have decided that law is a suggestion. Let us see the list of shame of Ministries that are avoiding allocating contracts to young people what is due to them in the law. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope the Chairperson is listening, you could kindly direct that they follow the law and play their role in bringing that list to this House so that we can debate it. I am sure no governor and Minister wants to be in that list. Otherwise, all of these things are high sounding declarations of what is being done with zero work on the ground."
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