30 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my time is almost over. You need to add me a little more time.
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30 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
The other issue is that the engineers estimated that the pipeline will cost Kshs53 billion but Zakhem International was awarded the contract at Kshs43 billion. I hope that the difference of Kshs10 billion will not come up through variations, where the contract will be taken to Kshs53 billion as expected by the engineers of Kenya Pipeline. 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.
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30 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
The other issue that I wanted to note is that the Office of the Attorney General has come clear that they have not been consulted on this contract. This is a contract of Ksh53 billion. There are legal issues involved in---
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30 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Office of the Attorney-General has clearly said that they have not been consulted on this contract. This is a contract of Ksh43 billion. We expected the Attorney-General to give legal advice. We have seen many contracts on which the Office of the Attorney-General had given a clean bill of health, but which ended up being riddled in corruption but, for a fact, we needed a legal opinion from the Office of the Attorney-General for the sake of clarity. This is not a small contract. The intention of putting up a new ...
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30 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker.
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29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support the further amendment. However, I am also requesting the county governments to be included because they are also separate from the national Government. They want to do their own procurement.
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29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I oppose the amendment. The issue of security has been misused many times. Even if it is something that concerns security, it should be listed down. If it is guns or gumboots and you do not publish them-- -
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29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
I am not saying that issues of security should be exposed but we should know them. We have seen cases where clothes and sugar have been disguised as security items. We want to know if it is guns. We should categorize the issues of security so that we know these are security items and should not be published.
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29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this amendment should be deleted. This is because when somebody comes to vary a tender that he has won, he will justify the reasons for varying. On the contrary, you may be given a tender and circumstances which are beyond your reach affect that tender. The circumstances can be monetary, market, money exchanges and other international markets. If you lock that amount to 12 months and the monetary market changes, that person will be in big problems with that tender.
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31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, hon. Speaker. I wish to seek your indulgence on a matter that I wish to seek your ruling and guidance on. I really appreciate your in depth knowledge of jurisprudence in matters of the Constitution and law in this country. I wish to raise matters touching on the Constitution and law before the Motion on the Presidential Address is moved, so that we can clear our minds on issues that we have doubts in. This House is the author of all the laws in this country and we must abide by them. We must also ...
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