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    "id": 1283579,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Kuria",
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    "content": "have you been doing when you wake up in the morning and go to the office? When you return home in the evening, would you have a reason to wake up the following day? The Privatisation Commission was telling us the disappointments they have had. Every time they came up with a programme for privatisation, it never saw the light of day in all those years. Even though this Bill seeks to repeal the current Privatisation Act, it safeguards the jobs of the officers already working at the Commission by providing a transition process. The Bill provides for how the workers will transit from the Privatisation Commission to the Privatisation Authority. Hon. Temporary Speaker, most importantly, this Privatisation Bill has the potential of rendering the High Court Ruling on Gazette Notice No.8739 of 14th August 2009 redundant because the issues that are raised in that court ruling as per the Privatisation Act have now been addressed by this Privatisation Bill. I want to thank the Leader of the Majority Party – because this is a government-sponsored Bill – for bringing it to the House so that we bring sobriety, efficiency, and competence in the privatisation of state-owned institutions. Lastly, the government is a terrible businessman across the world. The government should not transact business that the private sector can transact. That is what is being addressed in this Bill. We hope that moving forward, the Government of Kenya will only engage in provisions of services that the private sector cannot adequately provide. These include services like defending our boundaries and providing security, healthcare, and education. The private sector should provide all other services that the private sector can competently and efficiently provide because studies across the world have shown that the best way to ensure efficiency is by making sure that state-owned companies are privatised and that governments stick to their core businesses and leave the rest to the private sector. With those remarks, I beg to second."
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