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    "id": 1174536,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I stand to support this Statement by Sen. Iman on the Nairobi Expressway. Indeed, it is very true that the fee that is being charged on the Expressway is extremely high for a normal Kenyan who wants to use it. Any development that comes in the country should be able to facilitate or benefit those who are going to use it. If you look at the fee of Kshs5,000 per month and even the processing of the card itself, it is very cumbersome. Madam Deputy Speaker, if you have five vehicles, you must pay for all of them and have five cards for each of them. Imagine all those procedures and bureaucracies. If you are calling it an expressway and bringing all those bureaucracies and strategies, it is never going to ease the traffic jam that we experience. I thank God that the Highway helps our people. However, the design of the Expressway, as my colleagues have said, does not allow us to exit directly into the Central Business District (CBD) and Parliament. If at all we should go up to Museum Hill, what is the need of us accessing the City? We should have got another route that can come directly to the CBD to serve us. We are calling it an expressway and, therefore, everything should be express and faster. As for the fees that is being charged to use the Expressway, most people do not have money in their pockets. In Kenya, we are suffering and struggling. Many are living below the poverty line or below a Dollar per day. If you tell someone who has just afforded a vehicle to start paying to use the Expressway, at the end of the month, it becomes expensive. However much we look at it from a point where we have to pay debt, I would have advised the Government to allow Kenyans to use this road for free for two or three months. We would then have seen how best to tap into the new system and services."
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