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    "id": 542778,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
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    "content": "the report as amended is obviously not right. While the second bit on consultation is okay but if we are going to read this report as it is, it has challenges. It is removing the privatisation bit of it and simply saying “hand over these assets to the locals”. I have no problem with that if that is the intention but it is no longer privatisation. At the end of the day, what are we going to do? We are going to return these factories to decades of mismanagement and embezzlement because we are going to appoint committees to run them as if they are cooperative societies. The other issue I have a problem with is the idea of simply bailing out these factories yet the people who have been stealing from them, the thieves who have conducted embezzlement for decades, are out there doing serious harambees. Some of them are in serious positions in this Government; both the national Government as well the county governments. I was hoping that there will be a mention that even as we privatise, let these people be taken to court and be prosecuted. They should be rotting in jail instead of driving and living largely in this country. Finally, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I hope this report fails and another one that is viable, efficient and feasible comes. This amended report has changed the foundation, nature and direction of the report such that it is a completely new report. It should fail and let them bring another report. I oppose, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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