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    "id": 1001098,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1001098/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "I need to emphasis what came from the Ministry. The notice on transit cargo is not a negation of the agreement reached earlier with the leaders from Mombasa County, the Kenya Transport Association and my Committee, to withdraw the circular issued in 2019 directing that all cargo from the Port of Mombasa be transported to Nairobi only by the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). The directive issued by Kenya Ports Authority and the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) was withdrawn upon intervention by this Committee, the leaders from Mombasa and the Ministry. The recent directive is on the Naivasha Inland Container Depot and it only affects transit cargo. This directive takes into consideration and accounts to the following: 1. Movement by trucks and related movements by drivers because the movement of persons is the main transmitter of COVID-19 as we have been told in the 3.00 O’clock statement by the Ministry. By shortening the distance, we have addressed the major source of this disease. 2. The shortened distance reduces the damage to the roads and the huge investment required to maintain them. 3. There is reduction of accidents which is a major cost to our economy. 4. There is also efficiency of transport. Finally, the East Africa States aim to adopt appropriate ways across the border in transportation modalities to prevent the spread of COVID-19 across our borders and ensure that drivers who test positive for COVID-19 are properly treated. There is also need to reduce human interaction along the transit corridors. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I thank you. I now table the details in terms of figures in the statement for your perusal and that of the House."
}