Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

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• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I am also happy to contribute--- view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I am happy to contribute to this debate on the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Bill, 2014. view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. A story is told of two people who went to a university in the United States of America. One, a Kenyan Minister another one a Minister in Malaysia. They visited each other. The Malaysian came to visit the Kenyan 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
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: and the Kenyan went to visit the Malaysian. When the Kenyan went to visit the Malaysian, he was welcomed to a beautiful palatial home. He realised that the Malaysian had a beautiful home. He welcomed the Kenyan, showed him a road and said: “My friend, enjoy my home.” The Kenyan asked: “How did you acquire this home?” The Malaysian Minister opened the window and showed his friend the road and said: “Do you see that road out there? When they were building that road, I took 10 per cent of the money and put up this home.” The time for ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: profits of up to 400 per cent. That is not acceptable. If we are going to do business with Government, we have to make realistic profits that are in line with the market rates and the market trends of between 10 per cent and 40 per cent. A pen that everybody else buys at Kshs20.00 is sold to the Government at Kshs200.00. Everyone of us is really shocked. We have gone to Government Ministries, where they procure pens for 10 years not because they need pens for 10 years but because procurement allows them to take something for 10 years. ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: In the United States, they have a principle of ‘Buy American, grow America’. We need to apply the same principle in our country. If you buy Kenyan products, you grow Kenya. Many countries set aside a quota of procurement in the procurement laws to make sure that their countries move forward. Nothing stops the National Assembly from setting aside a mandatory quota of goods and services to be, in the first instance, procured from our country. Only in the second instance, where we do not locally have the goods or services required, do we procure from another country. If we ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: I remember when the laptops project came up, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) had offered to assemble the laptops here. In this procurement law and in the quota that we will be asking that we reserve, that is what we will be saying. If JKUAT can assemble laptops here there would be no reason to procure them from China. We should procure them from Kenya so that we can employ Kenyans and grow our country. view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have also had time to look at specific clauses of the Bill. Clause 3 needs to include county governments. The principles of county governments must also be enshrined within the procurement law. County governments are about two things in our country; they are about service delivery and development. If our counties are to develop then they also must follow the procurement laws that are going to be passed by this House. view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: In Clause 10, I share the concerns raised by the Member who spoke before me, hon. Kimani. On Public Procurement Regulatory Board, we are in days of independence where open and competitive processes of appointing people have come into our country. It is really sad to look at a law like this being passed in 2014 and which requires the Cabinet Secretary to appoint all the members. Imagine the Cabinet Secretary alone with full discretion to appoint every single member of that Board. I think that is wrong coming The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: in at this day and time. The Cabinet Secretary can, of course, appoint some of the members. We have had laws in which there is a shared appointment process but there must be some independent persons who come onto that Board who are not appointed by the Cabinet Secretary. view