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    "id": 1472248,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "in Kisumu and Bomet counties to know the challenges they are facing with electricity. We should be visiting projects in Bomet, Nandi, Migori and Kiambu counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, can you believe that the Senate Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) does not have funds to visit the Dandora Stadium here in Nairobi or Toy Market. However, we have money to buy new carpets and paint. As Parliament, we must have our priorities right. I had written through the Office of the Speaker to Mr. Nyandiere of the Joint Services to provide evidence because we cannot be saying that we are oversighting others and yet we cannot perform oversight ourselves. Is the House aware that the Senate pending bills is around Kshs500 million? You sit in the Liaison Committee and you cannot hold even a public hearing on this matter and do public participation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with these remarks, I thank Sen. Sifuna for bringing this amendment. I hope that we will fast-track it in the spirit of the broad-based Government and the President will sign it into the law. We need to discuss the issue of PPAs going into the future. We must ensure that this issue has been resolved. On PPPs, I want to propose to Sen. Sifuna and all of us that we need to reexamine private-initiated investments in the country. We can see Adani's debacle in the energy and aviation sectors. Let us review the law, even the regulations. When you are doing Privately Initiated Projects (PIPs), there should be a law that governs and ensures accountability. Let us be open as a country. If Parliament today wants to do a PPP, let the parliamentarians or the public know why, how, who they are and what the financing model shall be to reduce this chaotic The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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