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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Simiyu",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "left with after selling everything. Can we not try and clean the plates and the spoons before we sell them so that they can fetch a better price? However, with this Report here, we are intending to privatise the factories as they are so that they can go at throwaway prices because the main asset there will be the land. I believe that, that is not the intention of any Government, including our own, to hurt its citizens who come from those areas. That not being the intention, I do not see any reason why we cannot follow the many ways of privitasing. We need to follow those methods and privatise properly so that the Government reaps maximum benefits from the privatisation by getting good value for the assets. That will also improve the circulation of money at the Treasury. We need to re-look at this thing and especially at the land aspect because it is very sensitive. That is because the land which is owned by the Government and on which those companies sit is held in trust by the Government for those communities that gave it up for the setting up of those institutions. It is very important that privatisation, which we have agreed is the way to go, be carefully structured so that it does not hurt the same Government and the people who are its citizens and beneficiaries of sugar-cane growing and who live near the sugar-cane mills. It is very important that we do not just do it blindly simply because it has taken too long and end up handing over the same companies to those same briefcase people who have been importing sugar, thus messing up the same industry. If we do that, they will become the beneficiaries who will buy those industries at throwaway prices. By and large, with some reservations, I support the idea of privatisation. But I believe that more consultation needs to be put into it lest we end up with a big problem in our hands by privatising the Mumias Sugar Company (MSC) way. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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