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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, at the outset, may I take this opportunity to wish you and my colleagues happy New Year given that this is the first time I am accessing this microphone. I want to support this Bill because it very important. It is coming at a time when the country is progressing towards serious devolution. With devolution, our aspiration is to ensure that proper industrialisation is done. This is our intention in this House. I think one of the Bills that we discussed here before was meant to ensure that all existing industries are given to the county governments so that they can see whether they can dispose them of or develop them further. We believe that with financial inabilities of county governments, it will be very prudent if this Bill is passed and proper legal framework is given so that the county government can have the leeway of either progressing with the industries or disposing them of in a better way. However, the best way would be to engage in private partnership programmes with outsiders or people who have the ability and requisite experience in running such industries. I hope that a lot of legal input will be made so that when this Bill is passed it will be useful to county governments and our Government. I also believe that the Privatization Commission should halt or go slow on its intention to do a lot of privatisation that it intends to do. This is because most of the companies that the Commission wants to privatise went down because of either inefficient or in ineptitude of sound management or lack of proper finance to ran those companies. However, once this Bill comes into effect and it is done properly, this country and more so county governments will attract better private partners who will come and pair up with them. With those, I think we can resuscitate our industries. Hon. Speaker, currently, Kenya is not doing very well because we are importing more than we are producing. The country must be reeling under a lot of economic weight because we are not producing much. Kenya has become more of a supermarket. We are importing many things and producing very little that we are exporting. With this Bill being put in good state, the county government should take a cue and enter into serious private partnership. I believe that while debating this Bill, we should look at the legal loopholes that exist. This is because it is like the governors went to a training school on how to steal together. The management in county governments everywhere is wanting. That is why we have to take this Bill very seriously. Look at the loopholes and tighten them so that when this Bill finally sees the light of the day, it is foolproof and can add the much needed value to the intended aspiration. Otherwise, I want to say that I support this Bill. Hon. Members should look at it seriously and ensure that it is passed because it will add value to our industrial aspiration. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. 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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