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    "id": 668951,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/668951/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
        "slug": "samuel-kamunye-gichigi"
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    "content": "Government has some shares but they let professionals run that business. The Government is getting very good dividends. Whenever we have any organisation that is completely managed by Government appointees, we run into trouble. I have listened to the qualifications of these individuals and I hope they will not take their sweet time to merely continue earning allowances. We need to make up our minds. Whenever Motions are brought here to hand over public entities to the private sector, we need to deal with the issue in the interest of the Kenyan economy rather than in terms of regional and parochial interests. This is where we would like the entities to be handed over to us or to our local communities who will then mismanage them leading to their collapse. I hope that as it carries out its duties, this Commission will look at the history of some of these organisations which have been run down, looted and make sure that the people who have stolen public funds appear before courts of law, charged, convicted and jailed. Finally, I hope that for this cake that is owned by every Kenyan, there will be fairness and openness such that even Kenyans who have little cash can also invest the way we did in Safaricom and other such organisations. This is to avoid a situation where the entities are bought by the moneyed class in this country and the small taxpayer is not given a chance to own a stake in some of these organisations. I support."
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