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    "id": 1179715,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1179715/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dullo Fatuma Adan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I thank Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe Ltumbesi. I wish to add on to the Statement on LAPSSET corridor that he has made. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this project should have opened the northern part of this country. A lot of money has gone into it. I believe several promises were made at the beginning of this project, such as scholarships to the communities. Our land was forcefully acquired by the Government, without compensation. As communities living along those corridors, we have tried to ask the National Land Commission (NLC), to tell us how communities were supposed to be compensated. We have not got any feedback from them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this project is a white elephant if I may say. Something needs to be done. I wish Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe had come up with a Motion to set up a Special Committee to investigate this matter. It is very serious. A lot of money has gone into it. If you go to Lamu, there is a port but is it really functioning yet the Government has spent a lot of money? This is a very serious matter. We need to investigate and get to the bottom of it. We want our land back, if there is no development. We do not want false promises, as far as this project is concerned."
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