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    "id": 718531,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "This House is the representative of the people. Our Constitution puts in the framework of governance the key principles of public participation. When it comes to economic and financial issues, where we talk about management of companies that belong to the public as assets with public purposes for the people, and we are now turning them to private sector resources, we have to make sure that the process is clean, well-managed and handed over to competent people. It is no use to give a parastatal that has a key function and hand it over to a company as a shell and at a song and the company you are selling it to is not able to offer services for which that parastatal was established. I will give an example. Kenyatta National Hospital in Kibra Constituency is a public parastatal. If it was to be privatised and sold without the consent, consultation and input of the public, especially through this House, we will be in serious trouble. The Hospital could be sold very cheaply to profiteers and speculators who are well connected and it will fail to serve the purposes for which it was established. So, we have to make sure we think through issues of privatisation very carefully. I am not opposed to privatisation but we must see which sectors of the economy the Government cannot stay in and which are the public goods and services that are only really subsidised and well maintained Government corporation can provide."
}