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    "id": 719596,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "When we talk about the decisions to privatise and there are recommendations, they should be debated and the relevant Committee of this House looks at them. We are in tricky times and I urge the Members of Parliament to remain very vigilant in this coming few months. There are a lot of things competing for our attention. It may be voter registration, hunger and famine issues around the country, security issues and campaign issues. All these issues are there eating our minds. But, I beg Members of this House that we do not lose our vigilance and our attention to detail and make sure that Bills like these are rejected. What I worry about the process is if this debate ends today and the Question is not put and it comes next week as the first item on the Order Paper as happened today to Item No. 8 on the Order Paper. The people who were not there yesterday when we debated this might use tyranny of numbers regardless of the robust debate we have here and go ahead to pass it through Second Reading. This is one of those things that should even just die at Second Reading. There is no good purpose to bring it all the way to the Third Reading. I hope the Chairman in his thinking, wisdom and agreement might help us to mobilise other Members and alert people before this is put up for a vote that for obvious reasons, it should not just appear like that without context. This is one of those things that I think it would be a good thing if it died at the Second Reading stage. I am not just saying that, I am serious about it because the Order Paper Item No. 12 talks about the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. The piece of this Bill that needs to be changed to clean it up can be added to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill and we will have lost nothing. But on the comprehensive principal issues and substance issues, whether decisions to privatise should also be referred to the House to make sure that this House concurs or rejects Bills that we think are not in the interest of the Kenyan public. Decision about who will sit on that Commission’s board is important. We must make sure that they are the most qualified 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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