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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to seek your indulgence to allow me take a minute to send my heartfelt condolences to the family of the late Matiba on my own behalf and on behalf of my family and six million Kenyans living with disabilities. We wish the family of the late Matiba God’s solace in this very difficult time. We also want to send our condolences to the people of Kiharu and the entire country because Hon. Matiba was a great leader. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. May his soul rest in eternal peace. On the Bill before us, it is important to have PPP in our county government. Since these are devolved units that are semi-autonomous and have their own government, they will ensure that development reaches the furthest corner of this country. But as we enter into these PPPs as well as allowing the county governments to be able to borrow, as you know at the moment our country has a very big debt that we are struggling to repay, I want to register my reservation. Let us not come up with another avenue of massive corruption and massive borrowing that will put our country into debts that the future generation may not be able to pay. I want to ask the Committee to come up with legislative frameworks that seal corruption loopholes, especially those of benchmarking, travelling to every country of the world to go and seek for donors or in search of partners. We may incur massive foreign travel expenses. We have witnessed in the past when MCAs and county government officers could go and benchmark in Israel to see how Jesus was born yet when they come back they do not come up with any tangible thing that touches the lives of the poor residents of that particular county. So, I ask the Committee to come up with ways in which these partnerships will be geared towards tangibles: infrastructure support that will be directly implemented by the lenders. If it is borrowing from a bank or from another country or from the national Government, then it should be borrowing of infrastructure. The investor or whoever will give the money should himself or herself implement the project. If we borrow in terms of cash, we may never see where this cash will disappear to. We will come up with other massive corruption loopholes. I would also like to advise the Committee to avoid PPP or borrowing towards creating awareness and sensitisation—things that we cannot see or enumerate. When they create public awareness on certain issues, they are sponsored or supported with huge sums of money. But when you try to audit the number of people who attended the seminar, where the seminar took place, you will be told it took place in a hotel of a relative of a governor or a relative of a County Executive Committee (CEC) Member or a relative of the majority leader in that county assembly. A lot of money has been paid. We really want to make sure that this PPP or borrowing The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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