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    "id": 1208094,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1208094/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "These Regulations are timely. Members of this House will recall that our country has not implemented a number of public private partnership (PPP) projects. The first rather successful PPP that we can see is the Nairobi Expressway. However, the manner in which the Expressway was contracted and carried out leaves a lot of questions in our minds, and the minds of Kenyans. It is good to have such a beautiful project that is enhancing mobility across the city between Mlolongo and ABC Westlands. This project was built as a PPP project. I remember them telling us that no public funds will go into this project. Details coming out of the level of public investment in that project are astounding to Kenyans. Members will be shocked by the kind of tax exemptions that were extended to the contractor and the investor in that project including VAT and Import Duty. Hon. Deputy Speaker, you will be shocked that with such an investment, Kenyans are still not able to tell how much the contractor is collecting on a daily basis. All these Members will tell you that to use the Expressway, you can only pay in cash. You cannot even use M- Pesa because somebody does not want to be accountable to the people of Kenya. Somebody does not want the people of Kenya to know how many people are using this facility and how much money they are collecting."
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