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    "id": 1108271,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to also add my voice on this important Bill. Public private partnership is the hope for the country to have important facilities. This morning we were handling a Statement concerning a funeral home through a partnership between Kiambu County and Kenyatta University (KU) which has been serving the community very well in terms of providing mortuary services and other services offered in that health facility in Kiambu. Many a times, when counties want to do big projects like health facilities, roads and other infrastructure such as stadiums, they may not be able to do that without a budget. In this case, when we have a framework to protect public interest, then we shall ensure that we set aside budgets for big projects that will assist the communities. Looking at the small budgets that go to our county governments, in terms of the functions that they are supposed to perform according to the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, many counties are unable to do big infrastructural projects that will enhance development in the counties. When we have a framework that will bring on board private partners to do investments in collaboration with county governments, then that will enable county governments to do a lot of infrastructural projects. I remember one time when we were doing our sporting activities in Uganda, we realised that there are so many stadiums in Uganda. Even high schools had very nice fields. Possibly the government partnered with secondary schools to run stadiums. At the moment, many of our counties do not have stadiums. We do not have sporting fields where our young people can practice different sporting activities. We also do not have schools and medical institutions to carry out health research. With public private partnership engagements, we may be able to do many of them."
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