Humphrey Kimani Njuguna

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. view
• 25 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: In view of the complexity of the issue, although one month is quite a bit of time, and going by the deliberations, I am willing to wait for one month. Thank you, hon. Speaker. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Motion. I had a chance to work as a board member of the Public Procurement Oversight Authority in 2012. Historically, public procurement in Kenya has gone through a major phase in the sense that before 2001, there was nothing that we could call a legal framework governing public procurement in spite of the importance of Government procurement. In fact, the closest we came to having a law was in 2001 when we developed the Exchequer Regulations because of the pressure that we were having from the donor community, development partners and progressive ... view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Looking at Kenya, while we appreciate the milestone of public procurement in the sense that now we have a legal framework in the name of Public Procurement and Disposal Act, which is anchored in Article 227 of the Constitution, this Bill appreciates the--- view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, hon. Sakaja’s Bill appreciates the challenges that public procurement has had. These are the challenges that we ought to address. Section 2 of the Public Procurement and Disposal Act lays the objectives of 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
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Act as economy and efficiency, integrity in the procurement process, raising competition in the procurement process, transparency and accountability and raising domestic industries and economic development. While you interrogate the law, one is able to come up with this informed position that this law was heavily borrowed from the UNCITRAL model law, namely, the WTO law, and it needs to be domesticated. To me, it is the element of domestication that is not there in the law, in the sense that the law as it is now is built along the economic model or price mechanism where everybody is premised ... view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: In this respect, the procuring process is such that the threshold is so high in terms of the fact that they will ask for bid bonds, performance bonds, three years audited accounts, 15 years’ experience and tax compliance certificate. This keeps a lot of people out of the tendering process. This means that tendering in this country is therefore left to the large companies and foreigners while the locals are not able to participate in the procuring process. When you look at it that way, then you are not able to see how Section 2(d) of the Public Procurement and ... view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: I look at the youth from the perspective that this is also where you have the SMEs. The SMEs are known to contribute 70 per cent of the economic development of a young nation like Kenya in the form of employment, income generation and economic balance across the entire nation. Further to this, I have also talked to Sakaja because professionals in this country have a big issue with the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, particularly Section 5, which states that in case of conflict between this law and any other statute on matters of procurement, then this law prevails. ... view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: In fact, the Director-General alluded to this fact in his Circular No.2 of 2012 dated 10th February, 2012, where he was asking the procuring entities to respect regulated professionals by recognizing their remuneration orders. In the Committee stage, I intend to bring this amendment so that this unhealthy competition is brought to an end. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to support these amendments. view