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    "id": 1072143,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1072143/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill addresses issues of heavy capital investment. There are issues to do with housing units in terms of huge numbers, road infrastructure, electricity production and water and agriculture. All over the world, the economy has grown through partnerships. It could be international, bilateral or multilateral. Therefore, the invitation of this Bill to the people that we can now formulate it and pass it in this House will make investment and access to very needy services possible. I have looked at the world. I have looked at India. India has grown in terms of electricity production through PPP such that they invite a lot of private investors to participate in the production of electricity. In the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, I had the privilege of assessing most of the agricultural large farms in Israel. They are privately owned although in line with government policies. In the last Parliament, through the Committee on Regional Integration, I had an opportunity to visit one of Canada’s agricultural production zones and most of the investment is in the hands of the private sector but the government provides the alternative in terms of investing in large farms of 2,000 to 3,000 acres so that production of food is made easier and at a lower cost. You spread the economies of scale and the costing part of it becomes easier. If this Bill is passed as it is and the Kenyan people, together with the Government, enforce what we really believe in; most of our heavy cost will come down. I say so from the background of cane production. I represent farmers in this House. On most of the issues, like the road network, we have to rely on the Government. We have to rely on the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) to improve the road network. We have to rely on the Government to provide water. Should this Bill mature and we invite private players in a heavy scale, then we might find ourselves in a better situation than the situation in which our farmers are in today. You cannot debate this Bill without anticipating another Bill. Although it is provided in the Standing Orders that it is not good to anticipate – there is a Bill on public debate by Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi before this House – we must understand that you have to look at this Bill vis-a- vis the public debt. The same way the Chair said while seconding, it is important to scale so that we do not just allow private players to balloon into the economy minus the assessment and 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"
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