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    "id": 521146,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Whether they are poor or able to pay, we must encourage them to buy these pieces of land so that they can do business from those farms. If we allow outsiders to buy the land some local people will become landless. Some will have no place to stay and they will be poorer than they are now. So, as much as we want to privatise these industries, we must ensure that local people are empowered to own the pieces of land. Whether it is jointly by groups or collective funding, we must give them opportunity to own the pieces of land. I am so happy that Members of Parliament are supporting this Motion on privatisation. Market matters a lot. When we privatise, these companies will look for markets outside Kenya. By doing so, we will have a lot of money coming in. However, we want to encourage people from those localities to market those products. For example, in Turkana we take tea in the morning at 10.00 am, in the afternoon and evening. Some people store tea in their thermos flasks. We want also Members from those areas to encourage their people to market their products. If we do not have a local market, that industry will not continue. Therefore, we want to challenge Members from those areas that they should get a market within the locals. This is so that even before they go to the outside market, the locals can be a market for their products. Finally, the reason why we want to go the private way is because of service delivery. Any place that the Government is involved, everything is slow. So, people do not get services as required. Therefore, we encourage Members from those areas to support privatisation. At the same time we must allow them to talk and criticise this concept. We should not rush to privatise without taking their views so that they too can be part and parcel of the process. With that, I support."
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