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    "id": 641713,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for recognising my face. I support this Bill because it is in good spirit. Currently, there is a lot of conflict between the NLC and the national Government. The role of the CS for Lands still overlaps. The CS is suffering from the past of impunity, thinking that a lot of powers are still vested in his hands. If the issue of land is not handled with extreme care, it may explode. Land has brought many conflicts in this country. Because we are brothers and we did not choose where to be born, the passage of this Bill will add a lot of value to this country in terms of security and development. I am very dismayed that at a time when the new constitutional dispensation spells very good rules on what the NLC is, we have some personalities in the country that still believe in the past. I am astounded that this Parliament has discussed the privatisation of sugar industries and we said that the privatization should not go on until several salient things had been prosecuted and solved. I am surprised that at the time of debating this Bill, the Privatisation Commission, which appeared before the House, is behaving as if meeting Members was just a by the way. It is as if the elaborate meeting we had in Mombasa, which cost taxpayer some money, was just a by the way. In elaborate newspaper advertisements, willing bidders are given up to 15th of April, 2016 to submit their bids for the industries that they would like to buy. I want to put it on record in this House that it will be a tall order to privatise Miwani, Chemelil and Muhoroni sugar companies in my constituency. Nobody, however big he or she is, should come and trample on my people, thinking that they can use high offices to bulldoze things that are unconstitutional and illegal. By this statement, I am warning the Privatisation Commission to keep off Miwani, Chemelil and Muhoroni sugar companies. They can do their privatisation elsewhere but not in my constituency until salient issues are resolved. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker."
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