Hon Joseph Nduati Ngugi

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• 2 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for also giving me an opportunity to make my contributions. From the onset, I support 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
• 2 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: the amendments. This is going to provide us with an opportunity of correcting the wrongs which happened when the laws were made in 2015. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Public Procurement and Disposal Act of 2015 went in with so many mistakes. One of the major mistakes which really affected this industry is a clause which gave power to the tenderer or the contractor to have authority over the owner of the project. I am a Member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), and there was a time we were auditing a building and I could not understand why the ... view
• 2 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: In terms of timelines, I am happy because we are reducing the evaluation period from 14 days to about seven days; the tendering period from 14 days to seven days; and the period for prequalification from 14 days to seven days, which will reduce the timelines required to implement public works because there have been major delays. When we compare a job done in the private sector and in the Government, if the private sector, for instance, decides to do this hall, it can be designed today, tendered tomorrow and the job is awarded the next day. But when it ... view
• 2 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Government, the same job will take about six months. I am happy that the period is being reduced. It will go a long way in making sure that Kenyans get the right services. view
• 2 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: I have heard Members here saying that the jobs which are being given out by the Government are expensive. But I dispute that, especially classrooms which are being done under Competency Based Curriculum (CBC). In fact, I wonder how the contractors are going to be able to achieve those jobs. When you give a contractor a job and you have not done enough market survey, and you tell the contractor it is going to cost Kshs788,000, the same contractor is going to pay tax. So, he will deliver the class at Kshs600,000. We are going to make our people suffer. ... view
• 2 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Another important thing is payment. We are talking about procuring jobs, awarding and evaluating the jobs, but the critical thing is payment. We have seen most of our people suffer because Government awards jobs, but do not make enough provisions to pay for the jobs. I have always proposed that a good model is the NG-CDF where when awarding a job, the money is there and one is paid on time. This is something we have requested the Government to do. If we use the NG-CDF formula, people will not suffer. We will create great businessmen and we will not ... view
• 2 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: In conclusion, I support these amendments and I am going to bring further amendments to this Bill. Thank you very much. view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. At the outset, I support the amendment that has been proposed by the Chairman. It is going to ensure 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
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: that there is continuity and stability within the sector. This amendment will also ensure that many projects that are done by Government are completed on time, especially the Expressway, the Mau Mau roads and the Rironi-Mau Summit Road that the President has said it is going to start soon. I thank the Chairman. His Committee recently appointed the Director-General of KENHA. It did not create any gap. I propose that the director of KeRRA should be appointed immediately as well because his task is enormous. He is doing many roads, but he is not sure whether he is going to ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: I want to encourage our professionals and the young people – and Hon. Sankok that is what I was saying the other day – to join the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions to do technical courses so that they can emerge as great people. view