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"content": "The drafters of the negotiations made sure that it was a 50/50 arrangement so as to avoid the Auditor-General (AG). True. Who did it? From the Report here, it is very clear that the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Energy then, the Investment Secretary who was there and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) should be behind bars, if this Parliament has any teeth. Of course, we have the State Corporations Department in the Office of the President that looks after all the investments and actually checks on all them. We also have the Efficiency Monitoring Unit (EMU) and yet, some crook from somewhere comes and fleeces this country. Here in Parliament, we are debating and then nothing happens at the end of it all. From the Report, I can see that, that guy had all the connections with Kenyans. Kenyans are very good at doing that. I do not know because I am not a member of PIC. But it says that one of them is a governor. That means it is one way of making money for campaigns. That is given very clearly. You do not have to be a lawyer, a mathematician or an accountant to see that kind of thing. Clearly, Kenyans must change their mentality of doing things. Otherwise, we are in for a shock! Yesterday or the day before, we heard that one of the State corporations, Uchumi Supermarkets, was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). I remember very well that the so-called Committee, Board plus the CEO were rated very highly and yet, for all the ten years, they have actually been stealing. There is no other away. Otherwise, Uchumi Supermarkets was doing very well. I even asked the Chairman: “What next?” The other one is the Rift Valley Railways (RVR). All those are corporations that you and I have seen as Kenyans, and all have gone to the dogs. The design that people had here is very clear. It was to sell a very strategic institution and, for once, you may wake up one morning and find that you do not have fuel in and within Nairobi. What will you do? Here we are. Some guys who are so genius designed it in such a way that they made sure that you and I have nothing. At the end of the day, if we do not capture those people very fast, we will not have energy. The privatisation of such an institution - like the oil refinery in any country - is so important because we cannot do without energy. It is as good as having no Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC). You can imagine that. Very soon, if we are not very careful, we will see another group coming to privatise or do whatever they may want to do with KPLC even though, of course, it is private. There is something wrong and, as much as I am also supporting this Report to the letter, we must change the way of doing things. We are throwing this country to the dogs. To privatise the refinery--- When you go to any police station in this country, you will be told that there is no fuel. You then wonder why that is the case. An institution that has been there since you and I were born is now going to the dogs. How would somebody, for example, negotiate for goodwill of US$5 million? The person even takes his time and, at the end of the day, he gives you US$2 million only. He has turned you into a laughing stock. He has, in fact, taken you for a fool. Whoever did that is actually a disgrace and he does not deserve to be called a Kenyan. Therefore, the only place that he deserves to be is in jail. I am hoping that once we finish this, the Implementation Committee, whose Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson are present, will take upon itself to implement the resolution of this debate today. I have been to Mauritius. They are very hardworking fellows. Mauritius is a mixture of all nationalities. I am sure one Kenyan must have come up with the idea of fleecing this country and take us backward. The guy has gone away wherever he has gone. He has gone to Essar or whatever they call themselves. He has gone 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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