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    "id": 900537,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/900537/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
        "slug": "kajwang-tom-joseph-francis"
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    "content": " Ruaraka is synonymous with Kajwang’. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I invite my friend, the Member for Gatanga, to think through this. We should not over-legislate. We should allow the principle of free economy to work on its own. These are contractual terms. If you are doing roads construction, there are the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) contractual terms that engineers, lawyers and contractors in that sector all know. It is not in the law. Going to the procurement of other goods and services, you do not have to prescribe everything because those things are in the contract themselves. You allow parties the freedom to change contracts and negotiate according to how those goods are. When you say that they may extend, that is usually the case in contracts. But you can also have contracts in which the parties decide that there will be no extensions. If you legislate on this, you tie the hands of procurement entities from negotiating as swiftly as they can. Because these things are already in the contracts that we are talking about, we should not put them in legislation, otherwise, we will be stifling the process of legislation."
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