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    "id": 1363567,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "I want to encourage the Committee not to leave the One-Stop-Border-Post (OSBP) as they have proposed in their Report. They should not only be frequently inspected, but the Minister and the departments in charge should also be held to account. Every road block along the northern corridor must be a road block that serves a particular purpose. Officers at the road blocks should be checking the weight of trucks carrying goods to ensure that they do not damage our roads. They should also check those who are smuggling goods into the country and those that are trading in goods that are supposed to be in transit but who open and trade them within our borders without paying taxes. Therefore, all road blocks should serve a purpose. We do not need 27 road blocks. We can do with three or four road blocks along the entire corridor because the same goods are inspected at the Port of Mombasa. At the Port, they inspect whether you have narcotics or contraband goods and whether the goods conform to the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS). If they are goods that are being trans-shipped through our country, they are locked up in containers that are tagged. They have a system that ensures they are not opened until they cross our borders. Therefore, having many stops along the way becomes a hinderance to how fast one can move the goods."
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