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    "id": 862635,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gatanga, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Nduati",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Nduati Ngugi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much for the opportunity to contribute. At the outset, I want to tell Hon. Sankok that the richest people in Kenya are not contractors. In fact if you want to be poor, trade with Government. You will do one contract and you will not be paid, all your assets will be sold, your performance bond will go, then you will realise that you cannot go far. I have looked at this Bill and the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act and seen that they vary a little. Most of the amendments being proposed here can be contained in the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2015. Clause 6 of the Bill says that all contracts made for and on behalf of the national Government shall be in writing. I support this one. Most Kenyans have lost their money. They have been advised by procurement officers to supply goods, that there is urgent work which is needed, only to realise later that the Local Purchase Order is not available and they end up losing a lot of money. The other thing I want to say about Clause 6 is that this signing should be done within a certain timeframe because sometimes a tender evaluation committee can do the evaluation then the accounting officer fails to sign the contract. As we propose our amendments we should also 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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