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    "id": 862632,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/862632/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to support this Bill which has come at the right time. The easiest way to become rich in Kenya nowadays is to get contracts from the Government. Sadly again, the easiest way to become poor in this country is to get contracts from the Government. You will be rich very fast if you first of all get a contract, you are connected and you are willing to give kickbacks either in kind or in cash. For the women colleagues, it is in kind; for the male, they normally request in cash. This is what is killing those who are not well connected. You will find them getting contracts, but it takes an eternity to pay them. This Bill is very clear that we need to protect Government money. We also need to protect contractors. It should be a two-way Bill to make sure that those who get these contracts are paid on time. We should have a timeframe within which the contractor must complete the contract and also for the Government to pay the contractor. We should be alive to the fact that we have a law on access to Government procurement by the marginalised groups. That is women, youth and persons with disabilities. Even within that affirmative action group, there are those who are super-marginalised. You will find that they are lumped together – women, youth and persons with disability.. Women will use resources and connection of their husbands. Youths move faster than persons with disability. Women are getting 25 per cent of the 30 per cent, while the youth get 4.5 per cent. What remains for the persons with disability is 0.5 per cent. At times the contracts awarded to Persons Living with Disabilities (PLWD) are contracts that will not make any economic change in their lives. The PLWDs get contracts to supply tissue paper or tooth picks and they are counted as having been awarded contracts. Even when we are awarding these contracts, we should have these contracts awarded in terms of percentages of the value of the contract not on a number of contracts. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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