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    "id": 541704,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/541704/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anami",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Lisamula Silverse Anami",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the chance to speak to this Report. I support the Report of the Public Investments Committee on the privatisation/recapitalisation of Telkom Kenya. As I speak, Telkom Kenya purports to provide integrated telecommunication services to many facilities, locally and internationally. From the outset, this is a facility that is spread across the country, and that has attracted the interests of everyone. This is because of its assets regime and interaction with the Kenyan human resource. We cannot take anything that is happening around Telkom Kenya for granted. We have made attempts to privatise or not privatise because all this has been happening at the same time; we have had many Kenyans who are deployed there losing their interests and even jobs through retrenchment. We have to take an interest in this entity. The investment regime it has is huge. In the interests of the citizens of this country, it is important that a special investigation be launched into the transactions that are happening between Telkom Kenya and other investors. Why should we have investors coming in and out, and withdrawing from any negotiations they initiate with Telkom Kenya along the way? This has been happening over and over again. I support the recommendation that investigations should be launched into all the activities of Telkom Kenya in order for us to understand what Kenyans are getting and losing in it. I am particularly concerned because several former employees of Telkom Kenya from my constituency have asked this institution to pay them their dues. All Kenyans are also concerned about the same. It should be investigated. On recapitalisation, let us also find out what impact this will have on other existing entities like Safaricom. Is somebody trying to kill the Kenyan initiatives in the interests of foreign initiatives? This should be investigated. With those remarks, I support this Report. I would like to urge that we move on. We should not deliberate on this matter for too long. We think that there is something being hidden. Let us not over-deliberate on it. Let us adopt this Report and ask for its implementation with the urgency that it deserves. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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