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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a good Bill. It is an amendment to the 2013 Act of Parliament that sought to provide a legal framework through which PPPs can be done. As Sen. Wetangula said, it presents a lot of opportunities. The scope of what then can be done by the national and the county government increases exponentially once we have been able to diversify the sources of funding and financing such projects. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the national Government provides in the PPP unit that its intention for having such a legislative framework and for dealing with provisional services in such a matter, is to improve the quality, quantity, effectiveness and the timely provision of the much needed public infrastructure and services to the people of Kenya. This only happens in the realms of PPP where the interests of the private sector and that of the public sectors converge. That area of convergence is where we have mutual interest. One of the interests of the private sector is to make money and that of the Government is to provide that service. The Government must change its orientation in many sectors because it is not in business. Government needs to get out of business and let business people do business. However, it needs to create an enabling environment or the framework to let businesses thrive. The interest of the Government is just to provide services and infrastructure to its people. We have seen a lot of areas where there are many pending projects, for instance, I know the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has around 70 PPP projects in the pipeline. If you look at the energy sector, for example, there are many people who want to bring in energy into the national grid. Turkana Wind Power is one of them. I can see Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., who is a ranking Member of the Senate Budget and Finance Committee, and I hope when the Committee looks at Bill, they will ask themselves why these people, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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