Gladys Wanga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1301 to 1310 of 1718.

• 28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I was supporting it fully. view
• 28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: No! I wanted to contribute on Clause 58. I want to agree with the amendment. I also want to agree with Hon. Kibunguchy that Clause 2(d) should also follow that amendment because it does not make sense that, as long as you are a State Officer, then any other person related to you cannot participate in State procurement 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
• 28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: processes. That would be extremely discriminatory. Therefore, I support the amendment to remove Clause 1(c). If there could be a further amendment for Clause 2(d), I will also support. view
• 28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, it is in order for the Chairman to drop that amendment, although in principle we should be amending our Standing Orders, so that Chairpersons of Committees cannot drop Committee amendments just at will. However, in this particular case, it is in order for the Chairman to drop it because the amendment does not make sense. The other amendment to subclause (3)(a), where we talk about designs, specifications, functionality and performance is a good amendment, because it makes it very clear what the technical requirements should include. view
• 28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I would like to speak to the amendment seeking to delete subclause (3) (b). Some tender documents are extremely tedious to prepare; they have many figures going down and further down. Man is to err. I know that the Vice-Chair of the Departmental Committee said that in this era, we do not want to accept any errors, but we should know that man is to err. That does not change. You realise that such corrections always give opportunity to actors in procurement entities to steal. There is a proposed amendment to Clause 81, seeking to put ... view
• 28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I oppose. view
• 28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I wanted to speak to the previous one on which I had a contrary opinion. view
• 28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this is what I made reference to earlier in regard to the arithmetic errors. This is what we opposed in the first place because sometimes there are arithmetic errors in tenders that are particularly very huge. In the current practice, the errors are corrected by the evaluation or by the committee that looks through the document. You are then asked to make the correction. In a tender of Kshs3 billion, there could be an error of Kshs100,000 in your calculations. This is arithmetic. A small error like that is referred back to you and you are ... view
• 28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I oppose. view
• 28 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, can I make a point? view