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    "id": 1208107,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kangema, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kihungi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support the Committees’ Report on the Regulations to manage public private partnerships (PPP). As the Leader of the Majority Party has put it, investors have come into the country and have done their investment without guiding regulations. We have seen the case of the Nairobi Expressway. Without regulations, even the contractors who have been working remotely as subcontractors in those contracts have suffered because the procurement process does not clearly give guidelines on how a contractor can raise issues of termination of the contract if they are not happy with the pay or how they are handled by the investors. Regulations are therefore, very critical and important. As majority of the Members have put it, they were given good tax exemptions. The Government put in a lot of money because the investors came with the money, but it was our taxes that were used to acquire land. The Nairobi Expressway was done inside the town. A lot of money was used on relocations of power, pipelines and other facilities. It cost billions of our taxpayers’ money. The investor cannot account for all the investment that the Government has put in place. His work was to put up the Nairobi Expressway. The land that was acquired belongs to the Government. Some people were compensated. Water and electricity systems were relocated. It cost Kenyans billions of shillings. Whenever the contract comes to an end, we do not know how they used the money. They do not pay taxes on the Nairobi Expressway. Where will the Government recover its money? We need regulations. Even if the contractor spent his money, he needs to understand that we have put our money as a Government and we want to see our finances being recovered. I wish to support the Regulations because it will make clear how the investors are working and how the Government’s money that is put on PPP is used and recovered."
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