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    "id": 1139147,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Senators to reconnect with the electorate. However, I beg your indulgence. As we speak, the people that I represent – the people who live on the islands of Lake Victoria – are suffering because the national Government banned the operations of the private ferry service provider that plies Mfangano, Takawiri islands and Luanda K’otieno in Sen. Orengos’ County. This is causing untold suffering. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know how to deal with this matter since the Committee on Roads and Transportation is currently on holiday. I just want to beg your indulgence, that you allow this Committee a window of a week or two to call the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Transport and Infrastructure, Mr. James Macharia. To the people of the islands, a ferry is infrastructure. In every other part of this country, it is the Government that has provided infrastructure, but to the people of the islands, it is private players who are providing infrastructure. There is no other example of marginalisation than the fact that the people of the islands of Lake Victoria have to pay a lot of money from their pockets to get infrastructure that is fully provided to other parts of the country. As I finalise, that particular matter where the Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA) has banned the operations of that ferry, this has also compromised the development of school infrastructure. We know that with the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), we need to be building schools and classrooms for junior secondary schools. Almost seven secondary schools in Mfangano Island cannot get cement and other supplies because the people of the islands get everything from the mainland. I have seen the Chairperson of the Committee on Roads and Transportation, the very able Senator and incoming Governor of Kiambu County, Sen. Wamatangi, is here. If later on, even in your chambers, you could give the orders that the Committee on Roads and Transportation be seized of this matter immediately, call the CS for Transport and Infrastructure, so that the people of the islands of Lake Victoria can also be served with infrastructure just like other people in the Republic of Kenya."
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