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    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Finance and Budget that has submitted a very detailed report to this House took into consideration the views of governors, who are the people with the boots on the ground. This is to ensure that what we have as an amendment will help them to facilitate PPPs in those counties. Looking at the portal that has been put up by the PPP unit, which this Bill seeks to re-designate as the PPP directorate, I can see that there are about 64 projects that this unit has considered. Of the 64 projects, only six of them are post procurement; 18 are at the procurement stage, while 40 are at the pre-procurement stage. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at the pipeline, it tells you that it takes a long time for projects to mature through this PPP pipeline. When you look at the projects that are in post procurement stage, they relate to the roads annuity programme. The Committee on Roads and Transportation owes this House and the nation a detailed explanation on why the roads annuity programme collapsed. It was the basis upon which the promise of roads was delivered. Tens of thousands of kilometers of roads were made, and those roads traversed each and every county. Even when I go back to my county, people ask why the annuity roads programme did not take off. There were significant challenges, and I do believe that part of it was the contracting arrangement and the fact that money was coming from the private sector to provide a public good. In fact, the only way I would support this is because of the contracting arrangement and the fact that money was coming from the private sector to provide a public good. An assessment of the annuity roads programme is success or its failure would inform us in ensuring that we have the right laws to guide on PPPs."
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