Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this law is being amended to empower the contracting authority. This law also gives power to the contracting authority to reserve certain projects for disadvantaged groups. It is important for citizens to understand that PPP does not mean a foreigner coming to invest in the country. It also means private citizens locally. The understanding of a PPP, to many people, is about foreigners, foreign entities, governments and so forth. In this regard, there is room for reserving certain PPP projects in the counties or national level for disadvantaged groups such as women, Person with Disabilities (PWDs) and ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is important for us to appreciate that the Constitution defines women generally as marginalised groups. One of the sections that will be amended in future if men rather than women become marginalised is that section. view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: This law also gives the county governments the mandate to approve the county priority list before they can submit it to the PPP unit for publication along other national Government priority projects. The counties, therefore, have the mandate to ensure that they provide that list. It should be remembered that the PPP unit is managed in a centralised manner or is a national entity that requires considering both the county and national projects, and not just for one sector. Priority lists are, therefore, provided by the national Government and county governments to the unit. The electronic version of the Senate ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: Upon receipt of the list from the national Government contracting authorities, the unit shall consider and prepare a report to the Cabinet for approval, because then they become a national priority list, which captures both county government and national Government concerns. In fact, part of the reason Gov. Chepkwony had immense struggle convincing this House why he should not be impeached with regard to the solar project that he wanted to do in Kericho County, was because there were no approval procedures in the counties. He was undertaking a process that had not been approved anywhere. view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have insisted that counties should not fight to become agents of doing big white elephant projects, just because they want to be part and parcel of procurement processes that involve major projects. Counties have no business building universities. There are some counties that want to build universities yet agriculture, prices of products and goods, irrigation and the health sector are struggling and they have not even completed the Early Childhood Development classes. As a Senate, we want to see that our counties prioritize the areas that have been provided for in the Fourth Schedule, Part 2, ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: In continuation of the same, the Bill provides that when the committee receives those projects, it goes to the Cabinet. The Bill also sets out expressly the technical expertise that a contracting authority shall have to procure - development, preparation, procurement, contract negotiation and management of a project - under this Act. It states that there must be an assessment of the technical expertise of the contracting authority. Clause 10(b) states that;- „Where the unit finds that the contracting authority does not have the technical expertise to procure the project under this Act, the contracting authority shall, in consultation with ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for protecting me from Sen. Orengo and Sen. Cherargei who have arrived in the House in an exciting manner for reasons that I may not know. I would only want to say that they were absent when we wanted to vote. In this Bill, there is recognition that a procurement entity or a contracting entity may not have the capacity to undertake the Public Private Partnership (PPP) consultation processes. To avoid a situation where a private entity is going to take advantage of the public sector or the lack of capacity in the public sector, ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: bidders, prepare reports, state reasons for rejecting and if they have accepted the contract, they must provide the reasons for accepting to pursue a particular direction. The law also provides for the procedure for county government PPP projects and it gives the counties a right to enter into a PPP and be responsible for the administration of the overall project cycle for the counties to also have control in the delivery. That will be the new Section 54A which gives a detailed procedure of how the county is going to be involved and how they are going to control the ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: I am not looking for him to second. I am looking for him because he was around. I had a discussion with Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and he, together with Sen. Wetangula, know what happened to Governor Chepkwony. We let him off because the threshold was not as high as required. Otherwise, he would have been impeached and removed from his seat on an account of failure of procedure and legal framework to deal with PPP. As a Mover of this amendment, I suggest that the Committee that is chaired by Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud should look into the PPP delivery ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. Is it in order for Sen. Cheruiyot to use threats and intimidation in canvassing his position? It is non-negotiable between him and who? When he says that he has three non-negotiable positions in this Bill, whose negotiation is he talking about? view