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    "id": 668997,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1669,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, I was saying this is a very key Commission in our country that will be moving public resources to private ownership. That is the meaning of the word privatisation. This means that if we do it without some communities then we will be missing the point. They have been contributing all along to the creation of these parastatals and when you deny them that chance of knowing when the organisations will be privatised, it is doing disservice to this country. We have a duty as Members of Parliament to assist our leaders to run this country. Maybe the President or his Deputy does not know about this list but at the end of the day it will back fire on them. So, it is our responsibility, as Members, because this list will always come to us, that it is not representative of this country. That way we will help them so that they can be perceived as leaders who are leading this country in the right direction. The Government is not supposed to be in business. The Government is supposed to offer an environment for businessmen to do business. This means that the parastatals should be reduced and that will be the task of this Commission. The other issue that will make me oppose this Motion is gender. A third of seven is 2.5 persons, but we have only one female which is number seven. So, if the others are male then we would have, at least, two. In future we should ensure that when names are brought to this this Parliament we should also indicate the county they come from. You may be surprised to find that these people are from one county because that information is not here. So, we should get a Motion that can allow us to know from which county these applicants are from so that we can distribute resources in this country. I oppose."
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