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    "id": 1283584,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. It is not quite hilarious that he supports it. Support in whichever way it comes, even in one line, is good enough. Hon. Temporary Speaker, allow me to support this important Bill on privatisation of government-owned business entities. There is always the rider that the government does not have firms and property and that it only raises its revenue through taxation and borrowing. It is now proven that where the government tries to invest in actual property, most of that investment goes awry, resulting in entities going aground and unable to perform the functions they were established to perform. Public enterprises under the Parastatals Act that cannot perform should be privatised. We should have private people running private businesses for the purpose of giving the Government money. It should not be the other way round, as stated by the Leader of the Majority Party – that we have entities that run to the Government day after day begging for money to be salvaged. We should close shop for all those entities, bring them up as private entities, and start getting money from them. As it has been said, we have in mind the public sugar companies. They need to be privatised. It is high time these companies produced and sold sugar so that we collect taxes from them as they grow. The other entity is Kenya Airways (KQ). We need to rethink it as our national carrier. It has a very nice slogan—the Pride of Africa—which makes us extremely proud. It has The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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