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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker. Like I said during the point of order, I sit in this Committee. I am a Member of the Committee that looked at and perused these facts which we are discussing today. Let me say that I have no interest. I have never worked before in this particular company which was privatised. Therefore, when we claimed that most of the Members who robbed this particular company hide in this House, I was worried. Otherwise, I wish to say that I support the Committee. I support the Chairman and I am happy with the way the Chairman presented the issues. Telkom Kenya was one of the most powerful companies in this country. We know everywhere in the world that communication is the most important asset of the Government. It is like transport. Privatising the communication sector is like privatising the transport system in the country and that is tantamount to scuttling security of the nation. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, looking at the process of privatising this particular company it leaves a lot to be desired. Last week, we were discussing about the privatisation of some of the sugar companies in this country. We supported it because we know these are assets that belong to the people and people can run them the way they want. They can manage them properly and can inject a lot of money because when it is privatised, it will help farmers. It is good to allow other companies to come up with other means of communication but the telecommunication company was a Government company which was raking in millions and billions of money in this country. Employees of this company were in thousands. When we talk about the Kenya Posts and Telecommunication Corporation, we equate it with most of the employees we have in this country. I remember the chief executive officers (CEOs), one of them came from South Rift and he went ahead to become a Member of Parliament. When you talk about him, you talk about the many people he employed while he was working in this particular sector. So many people who were working in this particular company were laid off but our bone of contention is how this particular company was privatised. We sat in the Committee, looked at it and we called so many witnesses who gave us evidence but what was perplexing was the company called Alcazar Capital LLC and some other companies. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) investigated some other companies which have been doing business with the Government. The most important move that the EACC should take is to investigate Alcazar Capital LLC Company and other companies that were involved in tendering, procuring and taking Telkom Kenya Ltd. I also wish to clarify that when we looked at the questions the Chair asked, they were genuine because they were questions which most of us were looking at when we were sitting in the Committee. When you look at the procedures of the Public Procurement Oversight Authority (PPOA), it was flawed. It was kind of dismissed and nobody took serious consideration of the fact that there was an Act in place indicating the right procedure to be followed. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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