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    "id": 80646,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Onyancha",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Onyancha",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the other issues which I would like to see come into play in procurement is transparency. For many years, we have been told that there are certain purchases and procurement, which are confidential and cannot be disclosed to the public and, yet, that is where most corruption occurs. I have in mind purchases for military purposes, non-essentials that go to the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) and other departments which claim that if their purchases became public knowledge, they would be compromised. A case in point is the recent matter regarding the purchases of jets and aircraft fighters from Jordan. Those jets are not even able to take off from their fields and yet, this Government spent billions of shillings to procure them. There are many other cases which I hope will be looked into by the relevant Committees. My major point is that procurement is the nerve center of corruption and it must be addressed urgently. The new political dispensation introduces the issue of counties which I hope will be given the opportunity to hire their own procurement officers. Those procurement officers must, nonetheless, come under the ambit of this Act and the Department of Public Procurement headed by Mr. Juma. It is my hope also that those officers will be trained well from the beginning so that they can be able to deliver services to wananchi in such a manner that we will experience savings and offer more to mwananchi in terms of services and purchases with the same amount of funds. With those few words, I wish to support."
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