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    "id": 1108204,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "County. If you read the Impeachment Report of Gov. Paul Chepkwony when he was brought before the Senate, the team that looked into his impeachment recommended that, as the Senate, we needed to do a PPP law, specifically for counties. This law would guide counties if and when they desire to enter these forms of contract. We tried it in the last Senate. I think we passed it as House, if I am not wrong, but then it died in the manner in which many of the previous Bills have when they are forwarded to the “Lower House.” For us to be here today, this is great progress. It does not matter the route and means. What matters most is that we eventually achieve that which we wanted. It may not have come in the format that we expected because our design was a complete unit divorced from the tentacles of the National Treasury and the National Government, but this is good for a start. The establishment of this directorate as opposed to a unit is fairly different. This is as opposed to what we had proposed previously from the National Treasury, where from 2013 to now, many counties that have tried to undertake a particular project and sort the approval of the National Treasury have largely been unsuccessful. This is really unfortunate. That ought not to be the case. That is not the spirit of devolution under our Constitution. Both levels of Government should be able to support each other where there is need. Where there is a good basis and one has expertise over the other, you help out. Madam Deputy Speaker, since it has been felt in many occasions that the National Government has the requisite experience and the technical know-how of procuring some of these projects, they will actually facilitate many county governments to enter some of these partnerships that will help counties meet their key objectives. Unfortunately, that has not been the case. For us, as a House, this is a perfect opportunity that will grant our counties--- Our main interest as a House, much as we are focused on the wellbeing of us as a Republic, it should be our primary interest to have counties thrive and have the enabling legal framework such as this that is being proposed to undertake and meet many of its key objectives. I love this Bill because one of the key highlights is that it reduces bottlenecks. If you read the PPP Act, 2013, there were up to 12 entities that would clear any particular project. Knowing the rigorous and some of the difficulties with which many of our Government entities operate, it would be fair to say it would have been impossible. We have now housed all those entities “whatever approvals that may have been needed” under one single directorate headed by a Director-General. Of course, that Director-General has his team of technical people who will help speed up some of these projects. They will help counties to do proper feasibility studies, bank documentation and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reports by the laws of the land and also do a feasibility financial of the projects. You should also provide perhaps the necessary training for many of our county governments because I believe when this unit is properly set up, one of the things they will do is that they will train some of these county officers so that by the time the proposals get to Nairobi here most of the work that needs to be done in the counties will have already been established. That is a good gain and proposal in my assessment."
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