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    "id": 849055,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "(b) monitor and evaluate the preference and reservations provides for under the Act. In addition, all procuring entities, Government Ministries, State corporations, parastatals and county governments are supposed to set aside 30 per cent of the value of procurement for young people, women and persons with disability and such reports must be made every six months to the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority. Those reports are then supposed to be brought to the House through the Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunities and Regional Integration. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this has not been done. In many counties, we have seen unscrupulous traders purporting to have registered companies under the youth and women banner doing that business, instead of the young people and women of this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we request that the Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunities and Regional Integration--- This is something very close to my heart because I brought these amendments in the last Parliament. We are supposed to, at least, have Kshs330 billion value of procurement circulating amongst our young people, women and persons with disability. This will greatly reduce crime and unemployment. They need to ask because the laws say so. They need to get- (a) desegregated data indicating the number of youth, women and persons with disabilities whose goods and services have been procured by the national Government and county governments; (b) micro, small and medium enterprises involved in procurement and assets disposal; We need to do a forensic audit on that. You might find that many of these companies are connected to procurement officials, Members of Parliament (MPs), governors, et cetera . (c) we need a list of shame of state organs and counties that are not complying with the provisions to give preferences to young people, women and persons with disability; (d) complaints made on procuring entities; a record of those prohibited from participating in tenders or those debarred; (e) market prices of goods and services and works procured; (d) compliance with mandatory requirements within the law; (e)compliance with the requirement that procuring entities must ensure that the monies paid out to an enterprise owned by the youth, women or persons with disability is paid out to an account where the mandatory signatory is a youth, woman or a person with disability; and, (f) the extent to which procuring entities have integrated preferences and reservations in their procurement plans and throughout the procurement process. We will seek the support of every Senator in implementing and getting this done."
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