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    "id": 1108328,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1108328/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Bill provides for the roles of the national Government and county governments; that a county government may enter into PPPs agreements. All they need, then, is some simple validation or discussion at the national level. However, it is not that it is going through all the stages to be blocked by the national Government. The county government is responsible for administration over the overall project. The Bill provides for public participation. I think that is what Sen. Omogeni said needed to be strengthened, because public participation must have an effect. Sometimes we have token public participation where you just get people into a hall, bring them huge documents of a project, whose scope they cannot understand. There is always a group of people, which attends all of these public participation sessions. They come, listen and then sign a paper because they know that they will get Kshs500. Here, we have meaningful public participation where before that meeting, information on the project will be circulated. On top of that, there will be civic education on the impacts of the project. Therefore, even the environmental and political impact assessments are shared with the people beforehand. When the time comes, these people are now engaged in an enlightened public participation and not token participation for the sake of ticking a box."
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