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    "id": 1108342,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Therefore, the progress of drilling water could not continue in that particular county. The major plan was to drill water and start growing water melons and other agricultural food products in that area. However, this was challenged as a result of the legal issues that affected these public private partnership engagements. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, public private partnership engagement shall spur development in our country and even reduce the debts that we have been having as a country. Our country has been cherished as one of the countries that have the most progressive Constitution because of providing for the county levels of government. However, these county levels of government cannot develop at a faster rate because of the fact that they rely on the Exchequer as provisional funding. When they try to engage other public partners, it becomes a challenge because of lack of a legal framework. Once this Bill is assented to, it will be a game changer. Being the Chairperson of the Committee on Education, we have been looking at the landscape of vocational training centres that are across the counties. We do realize that there are counties that are already engaging public private partners. We found counties that have already engaged Germany and Sweden in terms of developing educational vocational training centres, in terms of start-up capital and even engaging in online training. You realize that provision of skills to our country is one way of ensuring that we achieve Vision 2030; Agenda 2063; speed up Universal Health Care; development of food and good houses in this country or what I would call the Four Pillar Agenda. These public private partners that we found having been engaged by some counties, have actually provided them with a lot of ideas, technology and the enablement to develop very excellent programmes in those Vocational Training Centres. With this legal framework, I am sure our counties can engage more and more public private partners in terms of development projects. We have had many counties that were having challenges, especially during the COVID-19. There were counties that could not even manage to handle this issue because of lack of facilities. However, with public private partners, I am sure that many counties will be open to engage public private partnerships to develop health facilities, infrastructure and that shall speed up marketing issues as well as development in those counties. I have seen that this Bill has developed a fund that is called Public Private Partner Funding where we shall have monies. These monies will be better managed because I have seen that the committee will have membership from the Council of Governors. This is one way of encouraging accountability and transparency because in the past, you would come across counties that have engaged public private partners, but when you try to follow up on accountability and transparency of whatever they have done, it has become a challenge. This Bill shall provide for the legal action that will be taken against anybody that will go against this Bill by setting out the offences, penalties and even ways of ensuring that every culprit is brought to book. I am sure that this Public/Private Partnerships Bill has actually taken time and it is my prayer that it will be processed as a matter of urgency, to ensure that this country"
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