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    "id": 1376514,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1376514/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I wish to thank the colleagues who have taken time to debate on this Water (Amendment) Bill that is before this House. I have listened to colleagues speak on this, many in support and some with concerns. Unfortunately, many of those concerns like the ones by my colleague, Sen. Okiya Omtatah, arising either from a point of not completely understanding the proposal and the Private Public Partnership (PPP) architecture in the Republic or there might be other reasons beyond which I can understand. Why do I say so? In the PPP law that we passed in 2021, and I would wish to invite my good friend, Sen. Okiya Omtatah, to read it and appreciate it, at the contracting phase of any service or goods that a private player has been allowed to provide to the public under a PPP agreement, the Government still retains the control of pricing and you enter into a contract way in advance. Therefore, it is not that you are giving it to a private player to run a public road and say, you will charge the amount of money that you want. If that was the case with the kind of huge demand that we have, for example, on the Express Way, they would be charging Kshs1000, so that they discourage people from using it."
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