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• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, when I was a young teenager, there used to be a Ministry of Supplies and Procurement. I cannot remember who headed it. One time it was even merged with the Ministry of Co-operatives. That Ministry would procure everything from school milk to pens, pencils, exercise books, pens for offices, and everything, and everybody else could only go to fill their orders. view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, today, we have a scenario where we are buying things for our Government Ministries at exorbitant prices. That money is going to individual pockets through corrupt means. That money is money which we could well use for infrastructural developments. It is in billions. I read somewhere that it is about Kshs7 billion which we lose in unnecessary and corrupt procurement of simple goods. I also would want to see a scenario where in law the Government is forced to buy locally. We keep talking about Vision 2030, how we want to rejuvenate and build a vibrant ... view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the same Government is buying furniture from Singapore and Malaysia. We want a scenario where we buy or procure locally first and if we cannot find it, then we go foreign and not the other way round. The furniture that I use in my house was bought from the Kenya Prisons Service (KPS); many people who have seen it come to me and tell me that they have also gone to the KPS and bought it, and it is for peanuts. The same furniture goes for hundreds of thousands if you go to Nakumatt. How do ... view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: we use today are imported from Brazil - a panga from Brazil with a handle made of a car tyre which, when I was growing up, used to be made in our local market! It is a shame! What do you expect a Jua Kali person from hon. Olago’s constituency, where the view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: business is supposed to be vibrant, or from Gikomba to make? What do you want them to make after you have imported pangas from Brazil? view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Hon. Wamalwa, this is one thing that I thank you for. You are making a good law and make it tight. If you do that, there will be no reason to ring-fence part of the procurement for the youth because there will be a market for us. Let people be creative. We are only trying to ring-fence because these people have nowhere to go, and they cannot afford to access the people who want to procure a pen for Kshs1,000. That is the reason; but if you create the market for them and stop the Government from buying things externally ... view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, now the Government has done very well. They have supplied electricity to just about every market across the country. I want to thank the Ministry of Energy for that, but what good is electricity if we cannot use it to make a living? It is not good enough. Therefore, I want to plead with you, hon. Wamalwa, to make it impossible in law for the Government to fail to invest the budgetary allocations we give it twice every 12 months locally. We are exporting our budgetary money while our jua kali people, a majority of whom ... view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to say that in law, we must do something to stop the procurement review board from being a place that people run to stop procurement if they cannot perform. It is a place where people go to delay things. There is need for sanctions against those people who ran to that board for frivolous reasons. You should not run just to stop so-and-so from getting a procurement order. Those are things which we need to stop in law. view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, therefore, with those very many remarks, I want to plead with my brother Eugene to consider the discrimination which he would create just because he had an idea put across by hon. Kimunya; that, to me, is not the way to go. That limits and creates reverse discrimination. Let us force the Government. The Government has so much money that if we bought locally, there would be no reason---. The Government will be supplying the money and the goods will be there for it to buy. If we did this, we will not have people beyond ... view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I do remember and I will remain relevant to that question. view