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    "id": 854935,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/854935/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, can you protect me from the Senate Minority Leader and his group? A major potential lies in the future of economic development through PPPs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this country now has an unmanageable public debt because of the inability of the Houses of Parliament to regulate how the National Treasury borrows. The Word Bank, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and internal organisations that observe our debt growth are raising alarm. We need a proper management structure. A unit is created to help counties and the national Government in processing Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to point out a few things that, as Members contribute, they should look at. Clause 7 of the Bill attempts to bring in the now popular provision that projects should be set aside or reserved for disadvantaged groups. This is a completely misplaced provision. You cannot obligate a PPP to the rigours of youth, women or Persons with Disabilities (PwDs). Why? This is because the entity contracting with the private partner is either the national Government or the county government. The national and county governments will contract with a person or an entity with money to run a project. So, a Japanese, German or Chinese national cannot walk into your county to enter into a PPP and you reject or tell them that you want only to deal with the youth, a woman or a disabled person. You are dealing with people with big money. What we probably need to do is when the benefits come, then they should be tailored ---"
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