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    "id": 1126683,
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    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "20 Bills that were referred there in 2018 and are still at different legislative stages. On this Bill, they rose to the occasion and proved that with goodwill, the 20 Bills can be processed. When the Senate considered this Bill, they came up with an amendment to Clause 6. This was to add the Principal Secretary in charge of the State Department for Infrastructure. On Clause 13, they amended by inserting a time limit of 21 days for the evaluation of a report. Previously, we did not have a timeline. On Clause 75, the Senate tinkered with it editorially to make it better and we agree with them. The Senate has basically enriched the Bill. I have looked at the amendments. Going by our earlier discussions and the court ruling, I am surprised that there is no amendment that has been brought here that relates to the functions of counties or county governments. Be that as it may, they still went ahead and improved the Bill. We had discussions with the National Treasury and Planning and I am sure the Committee can confirm that. We can live with these amendments rather than having a to and fro situation that will lead to mediation and we do not have the luxury of time. Hon. Speaker, I want to implore Members to take it that the Senate has enriched the Bill and whatever they have done can only make the Bill better. There is nothing unbecoming and controversial. I want to urge the House to accept in total the Senate amendments so that we can move to the Committee of the whole House and give life to the legislative process of the Public Private Partnerships Bill. I do not want to go to the background of why we did the Public Private Partnerships Bill because this House deliberated on this Bill and it was conscious of what they were passing. The only things that have been added are the issues that were brought by the Senate as part of the enrichment of this Bill. I do not want to take time on a straightforward matter. I want to implore the House to team up and pass this Bill so that we can have the best Christmas gift next week for future investors. For our infrastructure sector, we now have a modern Public Private Partnerships Bill that will be passed to be an Act of Parliament that will sort out our contractual obligations and issues in the future. By the time we look at the next expressway, for example, the Mau Summit Expressway and other Public Private Partnerships projects, we will at least have a law that we can refer to and ensure that everything is done in accordance with the will of this House. With those words, I beg to move and ask the Hon. Gladys Wanga, the Chairlady of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning to second."
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