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    "id": 717877,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lagat",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 64,
        "legal_name": "Elijah Kiptarbei Lagat",
        "slug": "elijah-lagat"
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the Public Private Partnerships (Amendment) Bill, 2016. The PPP Act is a recent law and it is still under implementation. This Bill is meant to fine tune the main Act so that it is implementable. When the question of PPP was decided, it was meant to fast-track Government initiatives in terms of development by allowing private investors to join hands with the Government so that where the Government may not have the financial resources or expertise, then there is a legal means through which you can attract the private sector to participate jointly with the Government. The PPP Act is supposed to fast-track the development of our country. Unfortunately, since the main Act was passed we have not seen much in terms of these partnerships. But I have seen a few cases like an advertisement by Kenyatta University (KU) which was requesting for a private person to assist in the construction of hostels. The National Treasury and other ministries should push harder so that we get many people. There are people who have capital and expertise which is supposed to be invested and, therefore, contribute to the benefit of our country. This Bill being proposed, as it has been mentioned by the Mover together with the seconder of the Bill, is an attempt to ensure that we recognise the county governments as another level of government so that we make a provision on how private investors can negotiate directly with our various county governments and be able to invest in infrastructure in our counties. I want to support it very strongly because when we talk about devolution, this is going to support devolution. We want to see the counties partnering with investors in sports. We want to see counties partnering with investors in terms of health. We want to see counties partnering with the private sector in terms of street lighting, and so many investments which the private sector can do jointly with the county governments. I am happy with the Bill also because it not only provides that county governments can do negotiations for private partnerships, but it also provides the procedure through which the 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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