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    "id": 1087347,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember when I was the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the President of Rwanda came to Kenya and said he is contemplating using the Port of Dar es Salaam despite the distance because of the number of roadblocks from Mombasa to the exit in Malaba. At every roadblock, the exporters and importers of Rwanda are paying a lot of money, making business extremely unbearable and expensive. We want to urge as the distinguished Senator has raised, that it is good to have roadblocks where necessary, either to battle crime or we want to arrest a wanted person that you know is coming through this route and so on. However, it cannot be routine that everywhere you go they are checking your insurance, the next one is checking your brakes and the next is checking something else. In fact, you will be surprised that all these transfer traffic trucks are given a ‘special envelope’ to drop at every roadblock. We must stop this. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) must come in this. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government in this country must bring to order these disruptions. I say this because we care for this country. If we are losing our trading partners because of our misbehavior on our roads, it affects our economy. When Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi start looking for a route to go to Tanga, it affects our business. A friend of mine who has just come back from Congo and deals in oil tells me that the Congolese find it better to do an extra 800 kilometres from Beni, Bunia and Goma to Dar es Salaam than to come to Mombasa because of our roads. It is not because the roads are bad, but they are badly managed and mismanaged by our enthusiastic and corrupt-leaning security agencies. This is not good for the country. Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank you for giving me an opportunity to augment what Sen. Cherargei has said. It is a matter of grave concern and we need to deal with it."
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