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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As the House rose in the morning, I had indicated that I saw a lot of good intentions in this Bill. It provides for disputes that are likely to arise when you have a privatisation process, particularly where the Government and the private sector work together. I also said that is a good transitional provision in the Bill. I raised concerns about the speed at which this Bill is being pushed. As it was presented in the morning, it was supposed to be before the Committee of the whole House this afternoon. It is coming together with the Sugar Bill and the Memorandum on Commercialisation of the Sugar Bill. One gets the impression that there is a specific purpose for which this Bill is being pushed. As much as the intention of this Bill and its content are good, the speed at which it is going creates the impression that something has to be done urgently. What is it that has to be done urgently that we have to push this? The previous Bill of 2005 failed. The Commission therein failed, and as the Leader of the Majority Party said, it was because of state capture. I am concerned that there is nothing to stop us from thinking that, even now, there are people in the Government… He repeatedly said that it is the Government and the people who 'captured' it. I want to remind this House that decisions of the Government are by the President and the people he listens to. We are not in a situation where those people are pushing through this Bill so that we quickly privatise without properly organising ourselves. The Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning introduced the Agency Theory to the House, with reference to the people who generally head State corporations. How do they get served by this? You get suspicious when the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning talks like that. The intentions and content of the Bill look good, but the speed at which it is being pushed makes me say that I do not support it."
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