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    "id": 189212,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Okemo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 198,
        "legal_name": "Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are two very important clarifications I would like the Minister to make. In his Statement, he indicated that there was a problem of the shareholders agreeing on the basic issue of upgrading the refinery. This means that the Government wanted an upgrading but the partners did not. From that point of view, I find it very strange that the Government would still go ahead and want to procure services of a firm to do the upgrading which was already a matter that was not agreed upon by all the shareholders. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if that disagreement existed, I would like the Minister to clarify to the House why the Government still went ahead and tried to procure the services of Mackenzie and the others to upgrade the firm. Secondly, it appears from the Statement by the Minister that the three private companies that are shareholders in the refinery are the ones who have the right to sell their shares and the Government only gets involved in terms of exercising their pre-emptive rights. If I look at the thread of the Minister's Statement, it is very clear that the Government actually took over the process of trying to sell the shares of the three private companies. Could the Minister explain how the Government got involved? What I see in all these is an attempt by the Government to try and privatise through the back door."
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