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    "id": 1034067,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1034067/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "remote area called Murtoto with one shop and butchery. This was only about 12 kilometers to Narok Town. If it could have gone to Narok town, we would not be forcing people to transport using the SGR. Instead, we could have created a catchment area for the Great Lake Regions, for the South Rift and even part of Northern Tanzania and Rwanda. We would be transporting our building stones and building sand from Narok all the way to Nairobi without being coerced. We would be transporting wheat, barley, peas, potatoes, and maize from Rift Valley and from the South Rift to be specific. We would be transporting soap stones and even other minerals from Nyatike. We would be transporting fish from Lake Victoria. We would not be talking to our Kenyan citizens and business people to use whatever mode of transport that they have shied away from. In addition, you know why they do not want to transport using the SGR. We should be asking ourselves those questions. Probably the SGR is not friendly; it is probably more expensive; it is probably the red tape kinds of protocol that are in the SGR chasing away investors. If as a country we strangle the freedom of our people, especially investors, we will be killing our economy. This is because if investors who are supposed to invest multi billions in the transport sector; who are employing our youths and we are crying of unemployment; who are supposed to jumpstart our economy post COVID-19 but we are now giving them conditions for how to transport and move their goods from one place to another, we are not only scaring them away locally but also internationally. Furthermore, remember an investor has so many options. It is not only Kenya that is open for investment. They can invest in Tanzania. They can invest in Uganda. This country is scaring away investors and the Government must rethink its dealing with businesses and making this country friendlier to business people. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I do support mia kwa mia."
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