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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Langat",
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank you very much for giving me this opportunity once again this time round to reply. I also want to thank all Hon. Members who have sat very patiently in the House. I also thank all those who made their contributions to this Bill. As the Chair and on behalf of the Leader of the Majority Party, we have heard the views of the membership loud and clear. Of course, I have noted a lot of opposition to the Bill, but when we will be processing amendments to this Bill, I request the Members who had issues with it to prepare their proposals so that we can correct the offending clauses. Though I have heard some Members saying that there is no Bill, I insist that there are one or two things we can live with as we correct the ones which seem to be offensive to all of us. As we have said, generally, the privatisation process in this country and many Members have noted it has not been got right. Going forward, we need, as I said earlier on and as many Members have also repeated, to look at the process and the law once again and see where we are missing the point so that when we privatise Telkom Kenya, Kenya Airways, Mumias Sugar, Safaricom or Uchumi something does not go wrong. Why is it that after some time we find something has gone wrong and we have to go back to our taxpayers to bail out these privatised companies? Something serious needs to be done. We have heard Members’ views. I thank everybody who took time to oppose or support the Bill. This House has 349 Members, but as we can see those who have remained to do the business of the House are very few. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those very few remarks, I thank the House, and you. In beg to reply. Thank you very much."
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