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    "id": 1174533,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, Museum Hill is still very far. We wanted an exit that is within the city centre. For instance, if you are to rush somebody from Mlolongo all the way to Kenyatta National Hospital, by the time you are exiting through Museum Hill and come again, you might experience traffic jam that will make it hard for you to access Kenyatta National Hospital. I know there were designs that were done, but I do not know why they did not create a entry into the Central Business District (CBD) of Nairobi so that it becomes easy to access because you can imagine if you have to go to Museum Hill and come all the way back. I hope those are issues that contractors can be told to sort out at no expense to the tax payer. Madam Deputy Speaker, we did not need to bring this issue of emergency to this House. I expected the designers, the policy makers and the supervisor who is Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) to look into the issue. KeNHA is sleeping on the job. These are some of the issues that KeNHA should have handled at the lowest level through the Ministry of Transport and say let ambulances and fire engines also the security men like police use the Expressway for free. You can imagine if the police are driving all the way from Mombasa Road and they want to attend to a security threat within the CBD or within Westlands, they have to pay. It is dangerous. By the time they are paying the toll fees the security threat has occured. Finally, you realize that the Expressway is high. We need to be assured of the security of Parliament Buildings. It is not only about us, it is about the seat of Parliament, the seat of authority. If anything happens, if a snipper or any security threat goes up there - because they are above Parliament - it can become a threat to Parliament. It is not about us, it is about the authority that Parliament is envisaged across the world. Those are some of the issues that were forgotten by the designers of the Expressway. Although the Expressway went up beyond what was envisaged during Kibaki regime of around Ksh37 billion and thank God you were the Minister then, within that Cabinet. Now it has risen to Kshs81 billion. These are some of the issues that maybe somebody somewhere was busy doing something until he forgot some of these infrastructural rectifications. I thank you."
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