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    "id": 209917,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/209917/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Awiti",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Adhu Awiti",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Temporary Deputy Speaker Sir. I want to thank the hon. Members who have contributed to this Motion. I also want to thank the Assistant Minister for Finance, Mr. Kenneth, for the remarks he has made. The Motion is intended to improve our own performance, as a country, and to raise a few issues that require reviewing of some of our policies. If the energy, communications, water, financial and tourism sectors are owned by foreigners, what will we be left with? I think there is need for us, as a country, to review those policies. We should set up a policy framework that will help in making the transfer of public property to private ownership open and transparent. This should be done in a way that Kenyans, who are the taxpayers, will be involved. We know that countries that have invested a lot in their public sectors give better services to their citizens. These are countries such as Cuba which, through its policy, is able, small as it is, to provide free education from nursery to the university level and free medical services. Kenya needs to learn what some of those countries have achieved. Since hon. Members have already agreed to this Motion, I do not want to bore the House with too much--- I only want to say that we will move very fast to make sure that the review is done before we are sent home. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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