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    "id": 303897,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muthama",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Nduya Muthama",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also stand to support this Bill. I was getting a little bit worried because I was wondering how the execution of the contracts will be implemented until I saw Clause 57 where I realized that Parliament and Cabinet Secretaries will be involved in giving authority and screening the partnerships. With three minutes, nobody can say a lot but I want to inform the Minister here that Kenya is an economic power house and more so in Africa. Kenya is on the world map. It has all the resources that are required and the only problem - I want to speak as a businessman - or the challenges that we are facing in this country are utterances from politicians. If that can be contained and politicians are made not to send such messages where they scare investors, Kenya does not even need to go out and source for investors to come and form partnerships in this country. In every country that has developed, development comes through the private sector because even the taxes that are collected to service the functions of the Government are paid by the private sector. Civil servants who pay taxes pay them after being paid and the results are so meager. The Minister has been involved in the private sector. I know one of the institutions that he used to head at the Runda Estate and the developments he left behind such as water is still there. We are still enjoying water in Runda and there is no problem at all. So, the Minister is quite conversant with what is needed and what it takes for the country to have an environment that allows investors to come. The other issue is that we should be careful and look at all the policies so that we do not end up with briefcase operators taking advantage of well behaved Kenyans and taking them for a ride. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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