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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": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for recognising me. This is a very important Bill to me. I have looked at the whole thing and I think it is tailor-made for my constituency. I am taken aback that there are very serious issues in this country that need to be brought by way of a Bill. They are very urgent. There are things to do with health because people are dying in hospitals, innocent Kenyans. The taxpayers are dying because doctors are not on duty. Something needs to be done very urgently to take them back so that people can get treatment. Students are coming out of universities because teachers are on strike. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) is doing his best. I saw he met the lecturers’ union and asked them for time. The Government needs to spend more time on this and seriously do something about the universities’ strike so that it can be averted and learning can continue. On this Bill, I smell a rat. If in this House which is a House of records, a Bill on privatisation of sugar industries was brought by the same Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and it was rejected, it is a reminder that privatisation cannot take place until the issue of land is looked at properly. We agreed that for land to be looked at there should be seriousness and justice. The question of land must be taken back to the county governments. The county governments must be part of the privatisation team that will know if you are selling or not. There is intention and that is what we are discussing today. The motivation here is that something must be fast tracked and passed very quickly so that my sugar industries which are Muhoroni Sugar Company, Chemelil Sugar Company and Miwani Sugar Company which are in receivership can be sold very quickly for a song. We said that this land issue must be taken back to the county governments. Today, I have seen a surreptitious motive through the Bill to remove the county governments from this arrangement so that it is the CS who will be able to do it. We must put mechanism that for any privatisation to be effective, there must be public participation. Parliament must be told, discuss and agree. I have seen Parliament wants to be disregarded so that the owners will be left with the CS. As you are all aware and Kenyans are aware, the new constitutional dispensation brought in a mechanism where the Cabinet Members were supposed 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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