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    "id": 560139,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want you to check who owns Nyali Water Wells, Changamwe Reservoirs and Shanzu Landlords. This Report was tabled on 31st March. This was meant to give the Members an opportunity to go through it. I have one hour to summarise an over 400-page Report. So, I want to urge Members to let me conclude because the work of the Chairperson is not to act as a parrot for Members who have had an opportunity to read the Report. Allow me to do what I am supposed to do. If anything is not clear in the process of debating this, please come and seek our guidance. State corporations, enterprises or quasi Government institutions, as they are called, are supposed to complement the efforts of any Government in generating revenue. I know Hon. Nyamweya is a seasoned accountant and he will accept this. Most of these institutions have only been receiving money from the Government and yet they have had, if anything, very little to contribute to the national coffers. It is because of this that I want to go on record and support the reforms being undertaken in the parastatals sector. The sooner this comes to this House, the better for everybody. The number of entities that the PIC has to deal with is over 360 and they are all audited. Most of them only exist on paper. So, the reforms initiated by the Jubilee Government is a commendable initiative, but that initiative must be fast-tracked so that it does not just remain on paper for the Kenyan taxpayers to see the benefit of the reforms being undertaken in this sector. With those remarks, I beg to move and ask the Hon. (Dr.) Paul Otuoma to second."
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