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    "id": 1108340,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to also support this Bill. Before I do that, let me take this opportunity to congratulate my colleagues, Sen. Madzayo and Sen. Nyamunga, for these wonderful decorations. Congratulations, you deserve the best. I wish to support this Bill because it shall give effect to Article 227 of the Constitution, which provides for the legal framework for procurement of public goods and services. The mega corruptions that we normally witness in this country and elsewhere actually take place at the procurement level, and when we try to fight corruption, we are just looking at history because corruption took place a long time ago. This Bill will streamline and provide a safe ground to ensure that public private partnership programmes shall move in a very smooth way, and I support Sen. Sakaja in terms of issues of bureaucracy. I have already done a Bill on investment promotion. I do realize that many of the public private partners are not brought on board because of the fact that there is a lot of bureaucracy that actually discourages their inclusion in terms of taking part in development in our country. Once this Bill is enacted, it will enhance efficiency in terms of regulations in the process of engagement of these public private partners, more specifically on the way of conducting and facilitating the engagement. We do realize that it has become a challenge, particularly in our counties. In my County of Bomet, I can confirm that the lower part, the Chepalungu area, and the lower part of Bomet East, which are very productive areas, there was one public private partner who tried to engage the county, but issues of legal framework became a challenge."
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