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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Opiyo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odhiambo Opiyo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. We have to be careful. We are on the homestretch. This is the time that we will expect Bills to be sneaked into this House because Members are busy out there campaigning or even struggling to register voters. It is this time when such Bills that do not mean well for this country will be sneaked into this House. I want to urge all my colleagues, both in the Minority and Majority sides, to be very vigilant so that we do not pass laws that end up muzzling the people of Kenya. Just like the example that has been given, just recently Members of this House passed a Bill on anti-party hopping. A few days later, everyone is saying that was a bad law, and they passed it here in broad daylight and everyone seemed to have liked it. I want us to be very vigilant as we go towards the homestretch. The problem with the parastatals we are talking about here is not really that they are not profitable or sustainable. The problem is corporate mismanagement. If that is handled, I think there are--- We cannot privatise everything. It is like saying we completely privatise KQ. A national carrier cannot absolutely be privatised because of the status symbol that it gives to a country. Indeed, even with other industries, like now if we pass this Bill and say that the Executive can manage these things without consulting Parliament, you will be surprised that we have put up a Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) with Kshs380 billion, of course most of it stolen, and it will be sold just like that. We will have a country where the main railway trunk does not belong to that country but to an individual having acquired it for a song. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to state here that this is a bad Bill. If it comes into law, it will be the worst law that will encourage corruption and all manner of ills committed economically. This House must wake up and reject this Bill for what it is. It is a bad Bill. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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