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    "id": 718614,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is sad. I worked in a private company and in the Government. It is sad that this Bill would have come at this hour. As an Hon. Member has said and I followed it keenly, they are waiting for the Third Reading so that this can be sneaked in. All we are saying is recycling members who have worked before is a very serious case. Most of these parastatals have failed because of the appointees some who are not knowledgeable in their operations. They are just picked because they are politically-related or related to senior people in the Government. They are appointed to a parastatal to rubberstamp, get allowances and go away. Therefore, removing Parliament and putting the Executive to run this show is dangerous. Privatisation is not bad but as it is today, I am totally opposed to it. We have cases such as the Kenya Railways which was privatised. You can see where it is today. In a simple case like this one, we have been taken round in circles. Nothing is coming out. This is the wrong way of doing it. Let us try and look at the current set up in all parastatals and give them a boost in terms of management of resources. That is the only way we can get some of these parastatals move forward. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, agreeing to this, it means we are actually abdicating our responsibilities and mandate as Parliament to somebody else or a Cabinet that we have vetted. This is because all Cabinet Secretaries apart from the President are appointees of this Parliament. We reject some and approve some. You are now telling me that it should be the other way round. They should tell us what to do other than advising us as technical people. Some of them are there because of their technical abilities. Now, you are telling us that as Members of Parliament, we are here and we are told that this has been done and you can rubberstamp. I can tell you that some of the parastatals that will be privatised will go under and we will go back to square one. Therefore, I am opposed to this Bill. I know it may be sneaked in at the last minute 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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