Dr. Simon Ogari

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you senior. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was saying that the profession of procurement is quite young. The capacity is quite low for the fulfilment of the provisions of this Act. Look at the number of officers required by the 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: procurement entities, including our own Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) offices. That is going to take a number of years to come by. In the course of it, we might end up having many untrained officers becoming the Accounting Officers because even when I look at their own Act and read about persons entitled to be registered--- Article 16 of their Act says that a person shall be entitled to registration if he satisfies the Council that he is of good conduct and has paid registration fee and that he has successfully undergone a prescribed certificate, diploma, degree or research course ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: (LSK) and if you want engineers you go to Institution of Engineers of Kenya. This must be recognised and whatever authority we are creating must be compelled to respect these other public bodies and regulated professional institutions and use their materials. They even want to establish some cost index. In the construction industry - I do not know about the other industries - we already have the Cost Planning Unit (CPU) of the Department of Public Works. We also have the Institute of Quantity Surveyors of Kenya (IQSK) also giving those cost indexes every month and the Joint Building Council ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: So I should be much closer like this so that you get me better. view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: I said that this Clause has to be amended such that we do not give responsibility especially on professional or technical tenders to innocent procurement or accounting officers who do not profess that knowledge. The issue which I want to raise here is on Article 227 of the Constitution. What is required of this Bill is to establish a framework and policies. What I am seeing now is that we are having more clauses which are better of in the regulations or in the tender documents themselves. This is because if you look at Clauses 73 to 88, they are ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: not need to legislate that because procurement methods keep on changing. Regulations can always come here and we adopt them. view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Yes. They belong to regulations. Even after regulations, we still have what we call tender documents. That includes instructions to tenderers, the conditions of tendering and the conditions of contract. That is where you specifically point out the method you are going to use and how it runs. We cannot go through all this since we might have to come for an amendment to add another new method which may crop from other jurisdictions. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am about to finish. Finally, there are clauses I want us to look at individually. One of them is 69 (c) ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: procurement entity. If we can manage to convince our colleagues, this is one of those which must go and finally--- view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Well, it is unlikely but, in most cases, your errors can also be corrected downwards and then you can refuse. Because of lack of time, that is another issue we shall canvass in the Third Reading. That is because that is security and you cannot just punish somebody for tendering. That is how he did it. If he realised there was a mistake, so long as you have got another tenderer who is willing to do the work, he can go ahead. However, I think we shall bring that in the amendments. Finally, this is more of a general comment ... view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order No.44(2)(c), I wish to seek a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security regarding the policy on the creation of new administrative units by the national Government. The creation of new divisions, locations and sub-locations around the country is undertaken in a skewed manner. Over the years, such administrative units appear to be created for political expediency especially during elections and by-elections. Now that these units are being used for economic development and devolution, this scenario is leading to unbalanced development within the sub-counties, the counties and the ... view