Gladys Wanga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1281 to 1290 of 1718.

• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: It is a point of clarification, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Yes, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I wish to take this opportunity to seek clarification. When we talk about fees and charges that have already been stipulated, what is the place, in this Bill, of engineers estimates? Are they part of what is considered the stipulated fees or charges? I know that it is a problem. At times you are told that if your quotation varies from the engineers’ estimates to a certain percentage you could get disqualified. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will be brief. The Leader of the Majority Party has already taken that aspect into account. If we subject every procurement entity to Cabinet approval, then we will also be subjecting the Parliamentary Service Commission and the Judicial Service Commission to the Cabinet. What will happen is--- view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I have already canvassed the position. I second. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support the amendment by hon. Duale for the reasons that he has given. We cannot be exposing our national security issues. This concern was also raised yesterday when he brought the other amendments. However, the responsible procurement entities should be very careful not to misuse the privacy that we are giving to our national security organs. I know rangers say that their guns are too heavy and long. Such things have been misused in the past. You will find that items with wrong specifications have been procured because there was no scrutiny of security tenders. ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. The reasons given by the Chairman of the Committee for this clause do make sense. However, I do not think they are matters to be controlled by law. That is why you have an evaluation committee or the accounting officer and that whole team that looks at the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: variations and sees whether it is justified or not and can either reject or accept it. When you limit it to 12 months, that you should have been in the contract for 12 months then the issues raised by Hon. Gumbo arise: “What of contracts that are less than 12 months in themselves?” Then you come to other issues where there is a pressing issue that requires you. For example, you are ordering goods and then you discover that the numbers have gone higher. That is not a 12-months affair but you may want to vary it within that time ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, you know this is historic. I want to go on record also on this matter. This is a historic day. This has been talked about for long. I know we passed it in Hon. Sakaja’s Bill, but this is going to be the Bill where we have it. I thank Hon. Sakaja and Hon. Gumbo for working so hard on this. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: When we say that 30 per cent of the total financial value is going to be for women, the youth and people with disabilities, the message that we are sending to procurement entities is that those contracts of supplying flowers and bush clearing should be forgotten. We should start thinking about serious contracts because by the time you get to the 30 per cent, you would truly have sweated if you went the flower and the bush clearing way. This is going to ensure that women and the youth will not only get the flower contracts, but will also get ... view