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    "content": "by what we found. In their evidence here, De La Rue told us how they print money for 30 countries. When we went there, and I have a lot of respect for the Republic of Sierra Leone, we found that they had a small order from that country to print currency for them. When we asked, while we were there, if they could give us copies of the contracts that they had to show that they had other jobs, they told us that they did not have. You want to pump hundreds of millions of shillings of Kenyan money into an investment even without doing a single feasibility study, without making risk benefit analysis and without caring to know what it is that you are investing in. Going by the archaic age of the equipment at the Ruaraka plant, we found out that the only thing that the Government of Kenya will be investing in is the land on which the company sits. But, wait a minute. Who owns that land? The land where the company sits is public land which was given to these gentlemen as a lease to induce them for business for 30 years. Having failed to make any recent investments that would give you modern technology, these guys then invited the Government to invest in its own land and when risks come knocking, they will pack and go. Allow me to draw from the history of this country. In the Ninth Parliament, the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee interrogated the issue of privatization of Telkom. This was done and after the investment was done and you know who the Minister was that time. After that investment was done, today, the Treasury, through Permanent Secretary, Mr. Kinyua, is being asked to pump more money into Telkom. The reason for privatization---"
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