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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mariru",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Kariuki Mariru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for that opportunity. I support this extremely important Bill. I have listened to the Leader of the Majority Party as well as the Vice Chair, my good friend, who has seconded the Bill. Essentially, what the Bill does, in my considered view, is to loop in county governments which the mother law had left out. Obviously, we must appreciate, as Members, the House, and the country that we do not have enough resources to fund all the public services that we need. There is not enough money to do roads, water and other public services. We must also appreciate on the other hand that the private sector has not enough money but has some money that they could spare to work with the Government and support public service activities for a profit. If you go to the western world such as the USA and the UK, the private sector in a very purposeful way is invited to partner with the government to engage, support and invest in the government. So, the public private partnerships are very important. On one side, the Government wants to provide service and on the other, the private sector wants to put their money into those services for a profit. This morning I attended a conference on water in Nanyuki, Laikipia County, where the county government and the national Government brought possible investors in the area of water which I found to be very innovative way of thinking. How would private sector players engage and support county governments in the area of water? One of the areas we focused on is how the private sector would identify projects that would make economic sense and in a medium-term or a short-term arrangement, support the county government to provide water to the Laikipia people. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, why the private sector is shy from engaging in this PPP arrangement especially within the counties is because there has not been a very solid and comprehensive legal infrastructure and framework to define how the private sector comes in. The Public Private Partnerships (Amendment) Bill does exactly that. It provides the framework, the ecosystem, stability and assurance to the private sector that if they provided and supported the Government at the county level to provide services, they would make profit and their money would be secure. The projects that would be included into the priority list under the PPPs and the county level is not for either a governor, CEC or member of the county assembly (MCA) to just think that this is the project we would like to have under the PPP arrangement. This law defines how the projects will be done and how you will decide that project “A” can fall under PPP and not project “B”. This law has given parameters in determining and making a decision on the matter. It is a technical issue. It is a legal regulatory, institutional, commercial, financial and economic issue. So, it is not just a governor to stand, CEC, Member of Parliament or CS to say from the top of his or her head that, that project will fall under PPP in 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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