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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we remember that when we privatized Safaricom, a company was born called Mobitelea and because at that time Parliament never interrogated this and trusted this, the cash cow that has come out of that particular mistake has left this country asking every year, month, week and day who is Mobitelea. If we do not put this safeguard of the proposed agreement, then it means that when you sign this agreement, there might be another Mobitelea like character, who will then go into the agreement and when the cash cow has been created and Kenyans are paying for the concessioned project, some shadowy Kenyans who will have created that company will be benefiting from it. We would like to give you the approval for proposed so that should we discover that some shadowy guys are coming in, we will smoke you out and say: “No, we told you. We gave you only the proposed and not the actual one”. So that I am taken very seriously, I notice that this company is not yet registered. The documents that you have given to us indicate that this company called Nairobi Motor Ways, we have checked, does not exist at the Registrar of Companies. We have even gone through the computer this afternoon and it is not there. We are going to be creating the same opportunity the way we did during the privatization of Telkom (K). You know what happened? Somewhere in Dubai, seven days before the deal of privatization went through, a company was registered off shore in Dubai called Al Kazar Capital and they have made their money. But today, if we put this particular safeguard, it will mean that we will not have another Mobitelea or another Al Kazar without this House interrogating. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this project because we have to move our country to the next level. What the Minister should be telling us when he is responding is how soon the projects will be completed. We would like to know because some of us, because we are mortal, also want to have an opportunity in our own life times to drive on these super highways. So, whereas the concession period is 30 years, how soon are these people going to complete the projects so that I can also enjoy driving on those particular roads. With those many remarks, I want to move this amendment and request the hon. Minister for Foreign Affairs, Chairman of Ford (K) in waiting and President in waiting to second my amendment."
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