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    "id": 1228794,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaruma",
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        "legal_name": "Johnes Mwashushe Mwaruma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to comment on Sen. Kibwana’s Statement on privatization of State Corporation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Statement has come at the right time because it will allow us to understand the justification and rationale of privatizing the State corporations, especially doing so, without involving Parliament. When the Executive is operating or working, the architecture of our Constitution requires that Parliament does oversight. What I want to get from the Committee of Finance and Budget is the criteria that was used to identify the State corporations that are going to be privatized. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, our experience has not been so good in Kenya. We have a situation where the management of State corporations under some unscrupulous Government entities connive to milk State corporations dry and then they sell them away for a song; they sell them away very cheaply. We do not know if this is the ploy, but this Statement will bring to the fore why the Government of the day decided to privatize these corporations without involving Parliament, which is an oversight arm of Government. We have two hotels in my county; that is, Way Safari Lodge and Guliya, which are going to be privatized. I do not know the criteria that was used and how much will be raised by privatizing them. I am supposed to be given opportunity to understand why they are being privatized and also make my contribution. What happened to public participation when we you are governing? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will be waiting for the responses from the Committee of Finance and Budget. I know this Statement will go a long way into maybe getting us involved and deciding whether or not to allow, or to see how we can prevent such from happening."
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