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    "id": 208558,
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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Mango",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Mango",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me an opportunity to add my voice to this Motion. This country has been bedeviled with monopoly, whereby you get a manufacturer is a distributer and a retailer. As such, you have nowhere to get reprieve. He exploits you thoroughly in every way possible. This practice has made Kenyans unable to get into business because if you try to become a retailer, you are competing with a retailer who is a manufacturer, therefore, you cannot make ends meet and soon you will be out of business. You will find that Kenyans who try business are unable to move on. The question of privatisation is a sore point. Privatisation has come but it is the same big fish who are buying the shares in millions. The small man does not stand a chance. You send there your little money and it is returned to you and you are told that they are catering for those above a certain level. First, the public parastatals were established by the Kenyan taxpayers' money. They were not established by the big fish. Therefore, they should be distributed fairly to all Kenyan so that even the small Kenyan can get a share of it. Some of our public companies have gone out of business, but in the course of privatising them, we sell them to foreigners. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what do we mean when we say let us privatise these companies and sell them to foreigners? It is like saying my baby is sick and I will throw it away instead of looking for medication for it. If the management is the problem, we should get proper August 15, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3201 management. With those few remarks, I support."
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