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    "id": 893232,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "The concern I have, which I have shared with some of my friends who have knowledge about this sector is that if we do not take steps, by the end of next year, we may end up only with Safaricom in the market. That is what I am trying to beseech the Committee to look into because this is not the end. I would recommend and advise that the Committee goes ahead even to make further recommendations to the CA. Even if it is not formal on the Floor of the House or in form of a report, they can still engage with CA and ask them to declare Safaricom dominant. I am sure the Committee is even more informed about this. Once a player is declared dominant, then there are certain benefits and advantages that accrue to others to make the playing field level and to make them participate and contribute to the development of our economy. We all know about the banking sector and the reason we even came up with this interest rate capping law, which is not very good. Let us accept that it is not very good for the economy. However, we had to go that route because we were desperate. Banks were behaving like it was monopoly even though there were very many players. The environment was not competitive enough. We do not want to have the same affect the telecommunications sub-sector. I can see my time is up. I want to conclude by congratulating the Committee for having this thorough research. I just want them to look at the concerns I have raised to even make their work better. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support."
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