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    "id": 789289,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ombaka",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. This is a very good Bill because it is a guideline that helps us understand how counties can work with donors and investors. It is a good relationship because counties are still very young; they are only five years old since they were established. And they do not have much for development. Challenges are still very many. They do not have enough resources. They do not have skilled manpower. So, partnership makes a very good strategy for counties to develop. It means that when you work with the private sector, they will bring in knowledge that they have had over time. They will bring in resources that they have used before and knowledge to impact the counties. We are aware that anything that is private, even private hospitals that we see today we tend to compare them with government hospitals. And we see that private hospitals are more preferred to the government ones because they are better run, there is efficiency, they have skilled manpower. Even though they may be expensive, they have set standards. That is why it is very encouraging that when counties are going to work with private partners, then one begins to imagine that there is some hope in that the counties will be better run because the private sector will come with their experiences, skills and standards and values for development. Even if they take up agriculture or sports or come up with infrastructure as the areas in which they work, there will be some discipline at the county level because they are working with the private sector, the private sector that is well known to set standards. I am so happy about this. There is hope for the counties. A lot of them have given us no hope at all. There is a lot of corruption at the county level and nothing has happened for the last five years. So much money is sent there but we do not see the input or the benefits of what they have done. It now looks like, with this Bill, a lot of things will happen at the county level. There is definitely going to be hope and people will look forward to working with the counties because standards will be set. Whatever they set to do with the private sector will be better done. Lastly, because I do not want to say so much, we know the benefit of working as a team is also teambuilding. You are working with other people that are not necessarily part and parcel of the Government. It brings strength in pushing an agenda. If it is about building stadiums or anything to do with roads, then you can be sure that more efforts will be put because they are two teams working together as friends and therefore development will grow. It is not just in Kenya 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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