Irungu Kang'ata

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• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to make my comments on this Report. Let me first congratulate the Committee for the good work they did. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, as I said, I take this opportunity to congratulate the Committee because they came up with a detailed and voluminous Report. It is one of the largest reports that have ever been tabled before this honourable The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: House. To the best of my knowledge, it is a Report of about 400 pages. It means that so many witnesses were heard and a lot of evidence was taken into account. To that extent, let me congratulate the Chairperson and the Vice Chairperson. They are eminent lawyers who are very competent. No wonder they were able to come up with a fairly comprehensive report. Be it as it may, allow me to oppose this Report and urge my colleagues to reject it for the following reasons. I have seen some of the firms that have been mentioned in this ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I urge colleagues who have raised the two points of order to give me a few minutes to complete canvassing my case, then they will get the opportunity to see whether I have illustrated or not. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, now that I have been invited to give better particulars, allow me to make my case in respect to the law firm called IKM Advocates. The Report seems to suggest that IKM Advocates were responsible for many things which, in my opinion, are beyond the scope of their original letter of instructions. There are two components to this entire arrangement from a legal point of view. We have what we call the commercial transaction and the financing transaction. The original scope of this arrangement was the commercial element where the law firm was procured to provide legal ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to reiterate that point. The Deputy Senate Majority Leader has raised two issues. I agree that IKM Advocates were contracted to guide the process from a legal point of view. That one is conceded. Secondly, concerning whether they were properly given instructions, I hold my view that they were correctly procured to offer legal services on this matter. There is no doubt that IKM law firm appeared in the prequalification list of the Attorney-General as at that time. We also have a letter from the Officer of the Attorney-General which is part of the annexures ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to finish. view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for protecting me. Section 74 of the Public Procurement and Asset Deposal Act does allow circumstances under which a procuring entity can do direct procurement. With all due respect, I agree that direct procurement has its own problems and it should not be encouraged. There are instances in this country where direct procurement has led to corruption, but in this instance, if there was an issue, the person who should have been culpable, in my view, is the Attorney-General because he gave the concurrence. If there was a problem with direct procurement of that law ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to read one of the findings in that Report in response to an issue that has been raised. It provides that the direct procurement of the law firm contravened Section 73(3) of the Public Procurement and Disposal (PPDA) Act (2005). As the procurement of the MES equipment was not so urgent as to render competitive procurement measures for legal advisory services impractical. That is a finding in the report. My rebuttal is this. I bring to the attention of this House to a letter to the Attorney General--- view
• 24 Sep 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a letter from the Ministry of Health dated 2nd July 2014, and another one dated 31st July 2014. They cited the following grounds--- view