Johnson Arthur Sakaja

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• 28 Apr 2022 in Senate: I remember in 2016, after having passed the 30 per cent Access to Government Procurement Opportunities (AGPO) law. I put an advertisement in the newspaper through the Young Parliamentarian Association which I was chairing then; and I am still the Chairperson. In advertising calling for young people who were interested in understanding how to procure. I thought we would use a small room at the Nairobi Safari Club which we booked. We expected around 200 participants, but there were more than 3000. We had to move the meeting to the University of Nairobi because there were very many interested young ... view
• 28 Apr 2022 in Senate: this tender, they get the 10 per cent and then the project stalls. They have gotten their money and the project does not go on. We need personal culpability for that. In addition to that, these companies and they are know, there are those who are notorious for always going to challenge on very frivolous ground. They can now be debarred if it is determined by the Review Board and not only the Regulatory Authority, that they have been engaging in frivolous and vexatious requests to the entities. When you look at Section 43, the amendment here in Clause 8 ... view
• 28 Apr 2022 in Senate: Section 53 is extremely important. It is where we started inserting in the year 2015 the provisions that then will enable young people, women and Persons with Disability (PWDs) to be incorporated in the public procurement. Section 53 of the Act talks about procurement and asset disposal planning. It says at the beginning of a financial year, there shall be that procurement plan that is then prepared. In that procurement plan, we said that the procuring entity or the accounting officer shall also demonstrate how within that procurement plan they are going to provide for preferences and reservations that take ... view
• 28 Apr 2022 in Senate: at the beginning of every financial year of the cost of goods and services. Thereafter, prepare current cost handbook which must be publicized. Thereafter, prepare current cost handbook for the use in decision making.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is extremely important for us so that this information is available. I can see I have five more minutes. There are many other amendments here that are of cleaning up or rather editorial review just to sort out where there had been mistakes. However, I now want to go straight into the area of real interest. There was a reason why we ... view
• 28 Apr 2022 in Senate: State agencies would include their performance when it comes to 30 per cent. However, it is not being done. In this law, we further said that the actual account that shall be used by those companies, the mandatory signatory shall be that youth or that woman. What we have seen is that these big “tenderpreneurs” create fake companies and get a few young people to be in the list of shareholders. Those young people pretend to go and procure something. However, at the end of the day, it is them who are running the bank accounts and receiving the money. ... view
• 28 Apr 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I was waiting for you to say less minutes because you gave Sen. (Dr.) Zani five minutes. Personally, I know you believe in bottom-up. Therefore, you will hear this. Since we came to this House, we have never received this report. I have asked for it without fail from Sen. Shiyonga’s Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration. I chaired it in the last House when it was a joint Committee of both Houses. It has never brought that report. We are doing a great disservice to our young people, our women and ... view
• 28 Apr 2022 in Senate: actually do roads. Either way, when you give contracts to the “big people”, they use young people to do the work. The people who know how to do those roads are actually our youth. Mr. Speaker, Sir, contracts like garbage collection in Nairobi City County will be for young people. Contracts like building some roads in some of our estates will be for our young people. Cleaning up our areas will be for our young people. This is because when you give somebody with a big kitambi, he sits in his office and does nothing. He does not drive that ... view
• 28 Apr 2022 in Senate: we die The Prompt Payment Bill. For those not engaged in business, we also sponsored The Employment (Amendment) Bill. All those are geared towards looking at economic empowerment for our people. We are in the era of economic empowerment. Let no one fool anyone that it is about anything else. It is about economic opportunities for each and every Kenyan starting from the lowest level; that is from the bottom to the top. It is not bottom versus up, it is bottom going up. We take them up from down. Once we do so, we are going to transform our ... view
• 7 Apr 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also join in thanking Sen. Madzayo for giving us this Statement on the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) process that took place recently. I was wondering why there were all these people at Serena Hotel. I think that was what was going on. Many times in this House, Members do not engage fully with these committees of regional and international nature. These include the East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA), ICGLR and African Caribbean and Pacific European Union Joint Assembly (ACP-EU), which I have been part of. Members do not know the ... view
• 7 Apr 2022 in Senate: 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