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    "id": 1021204,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1021204/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "I want to train my attention on a very fundamental issue. Many of us have questioned this matter continuously and incessantly. A State corporation - or a parastatal as we know it today - was designed to be a self-sustaining organisation. It was designed to contribute to the economy of this country and to the Exchequer. I see a footnote in the Report and I want to read it verbatim; “Further, it was observed that State corporations over-relied on Government grants for continued operations rather than enhancing internally-generated funds, raising doubts on their capability as going concern in the absence of support from the National Treasury.” Honestly, it is unfair to the people of Kenya for their taxes to be used to run what will more or less look like a private entity. I am aware that there has been a lot of effort in the Office of the President to try and reorganise those State corporations. I urge the Executive to hasten the process to reorganise and review those State corporations so that we only retain those ones that are sustainable and that contribute something useful to the Exchequer. It is a business failure as a manager to operate on a deficit year in, year out yet you have all that it requires for you to deliver on what you have."
}