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    "id": 862673,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/862673/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomet Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ronald Tonui",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to also support this Bill. This is a very important Bill because it will provide some clarity on the issue of contracts in connection with the Government. We need to have clear rules of engagement with the Government. I support this 100 per cent, possibly with some necessary amendments. I support the issue of bribery being included in this Bill. There should be issues of integrity whenever anyone wants to engage in business with the Government or in contracts which involve the Government. I once talked to a CEO of a certain parastatal which I will not name and she told me that what they spend efficiently and effectively on any contract is around 30 per cent. Seventy per cent is normally shared through paying commission to others for ensuring tenders and such. When we have clear rules of engaging in tenders with the Government, the issues of bribery and peddling influence here and there will also be reduced. I am also happy that this Bill will also include county government contracts. There are so many people who were contractors of the county governments and are currently suffering since they have not been paid even for as long as five years. Some have their properties being sold by the banks. It is important that all that is captured in this law to ensure that those people are paid. I do not see the issue of the mode and sequence of payment and how the contractors should be paid in this Bill and yet that is very important. I believe there should be a way or some guidance on the sequence like the policy of first come, first served. The first contractor to bring a completion certificate should be the first one to be paid. What happens currently is that those who are in charge of these Government agencies only pay their friends. They pay those who have given them bribes. The honest contractors are rarely paid. Their payment takes long to be processed. They are frustrated. To ensure that such kind of manipulation does not rise, I believe we need to build in this Bill that the first come, first served, policy applies. I will bring an amendment to ensure that it is well captured."
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