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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, some of the things though that are contained in this Bill--- We have been informed by the Minister that there has been wide consultations and I thank him for that. However, still I believe we can improve this Bill. It appears to me that county governments have just been mentioned in passing. If you look at all the lists under Clause 22 of projects that could be potentially for public/private partnership are supposed to be submitted to a committee. This is a national committee. The county governments will not have a quick way of partnering in a way that will essentially make the private people within their counties to participate very easily without having to go through the bureaucracy at the national level. The same Bill in Clause 53 talks about submission of memorandum to the Cabinet for approval. This submission of memorandum comes after there has been preparation and submission of project and risk assessment report, which is expected under Clause 52 of this Bill. Therefore, you have a procedure that really is still so centrally locked up. It still so clearly favours people who think of Kenya in terms of the national Government. Even when you look at the establishment of the public/private partnership committee in Clause 4 it really looks like this is a committee of the national Government. The county governments have not been given their proper position. I want the Government not to be in a hurry. We are saying that we support the principle behind this law, but we must not be in a hurry to crystallize everything at the national level, make it so difficult and bureaucratically impossible for the county governments to quickly do these things---"
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