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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, imagine if a private person was a partner to TAWASCO and a shareholder, he or she would look for all these requirements. He or she would turn hell and heaven to make sure they access the grants. That person would go to any length, even to commercial banks, to make sure that they get the best equipment and personnel to carry out the works. Even the kind of charging system that these county governments are using is not computerized; it is still manual. I am not saying it is only in Tana River County, but across the counties. Therefore, because they are not computerized, there is a lot of pilferages. If we have a private partner within any water and sanitation company or any contracting agency that enters a contract with the county government, they will not allow that. One of the things you look at when you get into business is if you can make money. Which are the sources of possible theft? That is why nowadays, if you go to a restaurant or a gymnasium, they tell you to only pay by card or M-pesa. This is because, they want to make sure that there are no pilferages. When you enter into a private partnership with a Government entity, all those pilferages will be taken off. It will be computerised. Our meters will come reading the truth, not something that someone has made up. You will not be brought a piece of paper in this day and age, to be told that this is what you are supposed to pay. You will not need someone to visit your house to read the meter. The meter will be well operated and monitored from a central point. Madam Temporary Speaker, I visited Germany and I saw what they do with their sewerage system and the management of their water system. They even use their water system to generate power, which is another source of income for the public-private partnerships that they do. It is time the Senate came out and supported this Bill. Speaking for my County, Tana River, we would appreciate if any private partner who would come and work with our County Government. This is because the county governments and the national Government have not been able to put infrastructure that can satisfy the people of Tana River. The kind of water tanks and water works we have were put up a long time ago by our colonial masters. If a private person comes and invests in the water sector in Tana River, then we would have good machinery, good billing systems and access to water. Even in the piping system, a private person would know that I need to spend money to invest so that the water from River Tana would reach each and every individual so that I make more money. However, where we are having a County Government that has limited resources, they would try but leave it at some point. They will do one or two things due to political decision-making and say that this is not important, let us focus on something else. If we opened up this sector for investment by people, we would also be encouraging"
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