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    "id": 1108215,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you. That is good information. We are hearing that part of this money is stuck in Panama. It is because of such projects which are being undertaken in a very dubious manner. One P stands for public and that is you, I and the people that we represent. Surely, as representatives of the people, do we not have a right to know who these private entities that are signing this Bill are? How are they pricing it? What is the logic of achieving it within five, 10, 15 or 25 years? Can the project be timed a bit longer, maybe 40 years so that people do not have to pay the amounts of money that we are hearing? I listened to the Director-General of Kenya National Highways Authority and he said it might cost us an upward of Kshs100 per kilometer to use the expressway. So, what economic sense does it make? Does it guarantee free use and movement of goods and services as was expected? The long and short of having a good transport system is to ensure that citizens are able to move freely. Therefore, the point that I am making this afternoon is that it is not for lack of good laws such as this PPP Bill that our country is in the state that it is in. It will all depend on us as organs of oversight and the Executive which is supposed to sign these agreements, if we are people of value and ensure that we do everything in the best interest of the ordinary citizen and not try to seek personal gain as we are famous for, as the people of Kenya. It would be unfortunate if we give to the counties this beautiful piece of legislation, then the next thing you hear is that governors have set up private entities and therefore, they are siding up. On one hand, you want to sign as a representative of the people because you were elected as governor but the private entity that is entering into that agreement are your friends and the people that represent your other interests. It would be unfortunate. It calls upon us, as a House, to be careful. Many of these deals are signed when we are in office. Then when you go out and the public begins to ask us these questions, we also join them in the chorus in asking. They expect better from us. I hope later on once we have set up and seen the challenges of this unit operating, as a House, we should be able to get a quarterly review as is expected of many of our public entities on what basis we have approved. There is another challenge that is coming up in this country where we thought that we are dividing the country into 47 county governments so that we send services closer to"
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