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    "id": 1060181,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "Therefore, I speak the Queen’s English direct from the source and there is something called similes. Very many times, I have been called a \"lion.” This does not mean I move on my four limbs. It only means that I am brave. Therefore, if I say that a salary is synonymous with a bribe to make you forget your ambitions and make others achieve their ambitions, I mean what I say, I say what I mean, and I know that is the truth. Moving forward before I was rudely interrupted, this Bill tends to solve the issue of our court cases in which businesses and business magnets have been scared out of our country because of long lasting court cases. You come and invest in our country, you buy land, you have done all the due diligence, you have gone to the lands registration office, you have been issued with a title deed, but all of a sudden, some people from whichever corner - Government officials - emerge and say that this is Government land, forest or road reserve. In addition, Taj Mall was not built inside a pocket. It was built in broad daylight. However, all of a sudden, it is a road reserve and we have regulatory bodies that deal with road reserves that make sure that as you start your building, they will tell you this is the wrong place. However, they do not tell you it is the wrong place. They wait for you to invest billions of shillings and then all of a sudden, you will see bulldozers claiming that the land is riparian land. Fort Jesus is actually on riparian land, however, you find some buildings in Nairobi just next to a dam being brought down. You have seen court cases dragging for many years while businesses suffer. We need to make sure that we prioritise. However, as we prioritise this, laws must also bring into play the issues that we have just discussed early of pending bills. There is what we call access to Government procurement opportunities by persons with disabilities, women, and youth. That was a very well thought out idea by our President with very good economic intentions to economically empower our hustlers. To economically empower people who are down to access Government tenders. These ones have become a curse in disguise. That is why there is the Contract Law. You do business with a county government having borrowed from a bank and it will take five years for you to be paid! The interest that you were supposed to make is taken up by the interest by the bank because yours is a bank loan! These laws have come at the right time. Just like the Mover of the Bill and the Seconder have said, I urge the House to support this Bill. On the implementation part of it, I persuade the Leader of the Majority Party that we stand as a House and make sure that it is implemented as soon as we have passed it. I also urge my President to assent to the Bill faster than any other Bill. Thank you very much and I support."
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