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    "content": "conventional rates to allow them to recover their investments. In this case, it is understandable that such arrangements exist. If you look at the rates which GBHL is paying KPA compared to the ongoing market rates, it is indeed, a very lopsided arrangement that ends up depriving the people of Kenya their revenue, which they ought to have got. Based on the Report that we have been given here in Paragraph 47, the Committee notes that GBHL pays USD3.85 while other operators pay USD10.4. The difference is so big and actually rings of unfair business competition. I would be interested to know because the Committee Chair presenting says there has been a review. Probably, it would have been in the best interest of this House to be told after review, if it has moved closer to the market rates or whatever. Sincerely, having operated since 2009 or thereabout, they should have now moved closer to achieving their return on investment. When negotiating some of these deals, the interest of the people of Kenya must be paramount and not the interest of a few people who simply do it so that they gain undue advantage to the detriment of the people of Kenya. As we move forward, and based on the recommendations, I hope either of them – the Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning or the Public Investments Committee (PIC) – will oversee to ensure that when they allow a second operator to come on board, their rates and terms would be more or less the same, instead of having unfair rates on other people. As we speak to this, and as my colleagues have also mentioned, there are many other ports in this country. There are also many places where we do businesses. I come from the border between Kenya and Uganda and we import a lot of grains from our neighbouring country, Uganda. If only the country can care a little bit and expand the various ports or landing bays in that part of the world, we can generate revenue through such handling. We have sea ports, for example. We have traded with Ugandans for many years and yet, the revenue accrued from that entry is minimal despite the high potential to even recover a lot of revenue for this country. With those few remarks, I support."
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