Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 899436,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/899436/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 739,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
    },
    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I happen to have had the responsibility to midwife this Act and operationalise it in 2006 and 2007. I have gone through it with a fine-tooth comb. The procurement professional does not just refer to a profession. It is somebody who is recognised within the Supplies Practitioners Management Act of 2007, which we passed to give room for the profession to be recognised. It was to ensure that we are not dealing with quacks but with somebody who is subjected to an institution that can provide disciplinary mechanisms for that procurement professional. If we delete the term “procurement professional” here, you have to go all the way to the Act and where references are made to procurement professionals; you need to know who they are. We are defining them here. Just as Hon. Millie said, lawyers are defined such that it is known that this is a lawyer who is recognised by the LSK. Accountants are those who are recognised by the Accountants Act. Similarly, a procurement professional is one who has professional qualifications in procurement and supply chain management from a recognised institution and is a member of the Kenya Institute of Supplies Management established under the Supplies Practitioners Management Act of 2007. We have already defined who the procurement professional is, what their profession is and what Act regulates their conduct. It is not an amorphous person in the Bill. If we then delete this person as proposed by Hon. Millie, we are allowing anyone masquerading as a procurement person to be employed and start doing procurement and there is no recourse as to what body you can report them to when they misbehave. Professionals must be people who have a body that they can be reported to."
}