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    "id": 789293,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mariru",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Kariuki Mariru",
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    "content": "the county. Rather, it is a very comprehensive process of defining and determining which projects would fall under this framework and that is very important. We must also say, in a very expressive way, that the CS responsible must not use this law to fizzle out opportunities for county governments to benefit under this framework. The Constitution allows borrowing by counties not only at the national Government, but also from the market. When I was working with the county government, I realised some of the regulations that had been done that would otherwise allow counties to borrow money were so stringent that in a sense, you are giving the right on one hand and taking it with the left. So, we must be very clear. This PPP framework and the role the CS is given, he or she must not use that opportunity to give the right of counties to benefit from this framework but on the other hand take it away. The committee and, indeed, all of us must extremely be careful. If this framework is there and this law allows those priority projects to be taken through a Cabinet memorandum to the Cabinet, the CS responsible must be told and must understand that the spirit of this law is to facilitate and not for them to fizzle and squeeze that opportunity. Counties must start benefitting from it. His Excellency the President does a lot of international engagements. Right now, he is in the UK meeting the Queen and the Prime Minister. There will be certain positive benefits from that visit. If what they are calling the prioritisation list of counties were done and the President in his international engagement has those lists, he is able to tell, for example, that in Laikipia, the Bill that I can sign that relates to Laikipia directly concerns water. The county government has itemised projects that have a possible area of PPP, so that when the President is signing a deal on a certain county, he is guided by the prioritisation projects done under the PPP framework from the county level, up to the CS and the Cabinet. The counties are doing a very innovative thing. They are coming together in realisation that should a county remain alone, it is not going to exploit her potential. Is it his or her? I do not know why they refer to them as her or his."
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