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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to oppose this law. I am familiar with privatisation of this country and the original Act because it was applied when I was in Government. One of the examples is the New Kenya Cooperative Creameries (New KCC), which was going through a process of privatisation by the Privatisation Commission. You could see the gaps and that, indeed, the common Kenyan and one who had invested in milk and dairy farming had really lost and continues to lose up to today and the matter of New KCC has never been resolved. That is one example of a situation where privatisation has been a big failure in the country and this affects a lot of farmers. A lot of Members of Parliament here are affected by that particular event. As previous colleagues have said, I want to say that this is a bad law. In fact, other than removing Parliament and bringing in the Executive to handle a matter of privatisation and making the quorum two-thirds--- In fact, making the quorum two-thirds is the only thing near reasonableness because two-thirds means you have a majority of some sort. Otherwise, the rest of the Bill is in bad faith and should not be accepted at all, either by the Opposition or the Government. We should go back to the drawing board. In fact, any law which seeks to remove the role of Parliament in a situation--- You know that currently Parliament is constituted on the new Constitution and it is clear that it resolves matters of the people. It approves all the other senior positions like the Cabinet Secretaries. Why now when you already have a law which recognises the role of Parliament and which is in conformity with the current Constitution? Now we make a law to remove the role of Parliament. By that, the whole Act is defective and fails to meet the constitutional requirement that it should be consistent and any inconsistency to that nature should be null and void. Therefore, these amendments are null and void to the consistency of the Constitution. It is my humble opinion that if we go on with this privatisation, then you are legalising theft from the public coffers. We have already legalised theft of votes and now we go on to legalise theft. We are making very bad law through the tyranny of numbers and for the first time, I really want to ask the majority Members of Parliament to, at least, for the first time, reject this Bill so that we can have a free country whereby we are not just rubberstamping statutes from the Executive. In fact, if you look at the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons, you will see that this concerns county governments because county governments will own some of the institutions. Therefore, if this Bill survives in the National Assembly, it will be going to the Senate. So, you can see that recognition."
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