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    "id": 1031445,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Even as we support the Report, I must thank my colleagues from the Coast because by initiating this kind of inquiry, we are also going to have many more people benefiting. In the Ukambani region, where I come from, a number of our towns had started dying basically because all the transport along the Nairobi Mombasa Corridor used to have lorries stopping at specific areas. Other than the economic benefits of spending in those areas, there were also social benefits which used to come to our people. We cannot ignore them. When everything went to the SGR, you can imagine what is happening in that area. So, these recommendations will help us also. Even as they help us, it is high time, as Kenyans, we started asking the question of value for money. I would have wished to see a situation where this inquiry was extended to where we start asking if Kenyans are getting value for money. Is the loan we got for so many years going to burden our future generations? The practice is always that each time we get a loan, by the time we get to the next generation, a particular investment should have generated such revenue streams to a level that it would be paying for itself. I always ask myself: Are we going to be in that level in 15 years or do we get to the 15th year and we will still be paying Ksh1 billion to a company which seems not to be known to any Kenyan? We heard Hon. Nassir say that there is a company that gets Ksh1 billion every month and it seems nobody knows about it. These are the important questions we need to ask about this project."
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