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    "id": 892829,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/892829/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Rural, CCU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Mboni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13388,
        "legal_name": "David Mwalika Mboni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute to this Report. From the onset, I want to thank PAC for bringing it. It is raising fundamental issues like direct procurement and conflict of interest where companies known to the commissioners and staff were awarded huge contracts worth millions of shillings. While direct procurement is among the proposed procurement methods in the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act, it is highly discouraged. It is normally used when there is only one supplier in the country who can supply the items required. Therefore, it is not acceptable for the IEBC to use this method. We need to understand that 60 per cent of our development budget is wasted through procurement. That is why we cannot get value for money and this country remains very poor because of these activities. We need to know that huge activities like election procurement plans are done earlier. Activities are given deadlines so that they are not delayed in terms of implementation. For the IEBC to go back and use direct procurement…"
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