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    "id": 186016,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think it is critically important for it to go on record that what the Minister has attempted to indicate here that the Privatisation Commission did participate in the Safaricom Initial Public Offer (IPO), is manifestly misleading. Part (iii) of the Privatisation Act is very clear as to how the privatisation programme is to be generated by the Privatisation Commission, approved by the Cabinet and then implimented by the Commission itself. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what the Minister has attempted to tell us this morning is tokenism. Tokensim that has resulted in the emasculation of important institutions in this country leading to the virtual morgaging of the assets of this nation, like the case we dealt with yesterday, regarding Rift Valley Railways (RVR). Therefore, I think it is important for the Minister to aknowledge and place it on record that, the Privatisation Commission has not participated in any substantive way in the privatisation measures that we have witnessed since this Act came to force and give this House a tacit commitment that no further privatisation will proceed before this Commission takes full effect in accordance with the Privatisation Act."
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