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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "participation of Parliament. The Executive will then appoint board members without consulting. Parliament and the board that will be appointed without consulting Parliament will then make decisions and recommendations on what companies to be privatised. Chemelil and Muhoroni sugar companies and Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), could all be sold off without any reference to Parliament. At the end of the debate, everybody was against it. I remember Hon. Dalmas Otieno, a senior Member of this House, making it very clear. The Question was put to vote yesterday afternoon and it was carried unanimously. That is a little bit of an irony and a frustration to the Members of this House. When the Question to such an important Bill is finally put without briefing Members as to how the debate ended, with 20 out of the 30 Members who spoke opposing it, it begs many questions. There was no summary or brief provided. In the House of Commons, summaries on debates and briefs are provided to Members on the day before they vote on a Question. However, yesterday, Members came in and the Question on the Bill was put. People voted without knowing where the debate had reached. It is a little sad, but all is not lost. I want to bring to the attention of the House the fact that the Privatisation (Amendment) Bill, as passed, will lead to public companies being sold at a song without consultation. Yesterday, the Bill was approved though we had opposed it. We still have a chance to amend it during Committee Stage. If the amendments do not suffer defeat, they will meet the wishes of this House. I hope Members at that point will get together and make sure that the Bill is rejected. I look forward to moving amendments during the Committee of the whole House. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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