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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Michuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
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        "legal_name": "John Njoroge Michuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, obviously, Mr. Okemo has raised several issues. One of them is already dealt with in this Statement, namely, that when the Government decides which institutions are to be privatised, they are then handed over to the Commission to finalise the intended activity of handing over the institution to other shareholders. That I have dealt with here. As to why the Privatisation Act which was passed in 2005 took so long to come to effect, the hon. Member knows that this issue has already been dealt with in this House. It even had to take the Speaker in the previous Parliament to require the then Minister to bring the Act into effect. This of course, is what happened thereafter. So, I need not revisit that because it is already in the public domain. The hon. Member knows what happened thereafter. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, all these matters are going to be handled under the Act which he was waving to you this morning. I can do no more than to assure the hon. Member that this is what is going to happen. At the same time, I think I should mention here that we are also working on a policy which will come even before the Committee the hon. Member chairs regarding the public and private partnership proposal. This, again, will be another way of getting the general public to own assets which are now in the hands of the Government because the Government is better governing rather than trading."
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