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    "id": 1502195,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502195/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " In conclusion, this does not mean that without Adani, we do not get the massive investment we need at JKIA or the energy and road sectors. As the President said, our nation's economy is resilient. I look forward to the President and his administration ensuring they get an alternative PPP to ensure that JKIA, Moi International Airport and Eldoret International Airport are redone, and that the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) can transmit the idle power that is generated. We have invested hundreds of billions in energy generation but cannot evacuate it. This is because we lack capital resources. We need to evacuate that power to our villages so that our people can get jobs by establishing manufacturing industries. Those who can work online can do so because they have access to power. I encourage the President and the Kenya Kwanza Government to move with speed and challenge the naysayers. If you do not like Adani, bring Ambani, Turkish, Chinese or Americans. Bring anyone with capital to invest in this country. I hope those who have been admonishing PPPs will give us alternative solutions for better investors. Hon. Speaker, with that, I beg to move. I request all of us to debate. There is nothing to support but just to note. As we debate, we do so with decorum and be forthright to Kenyans that PPPs are the new way to actualise capital investments. On a Friday, for those who go to the western part of our country, driving from Nairobi to Nakuru or Malaba takes you inordinately long. Going to Nakuru is a journey that should take one-and-a-half hours. Today, it takes close to four-and-a-half hours. I look forward to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure getting a PPP arrangement to ensure that the Rironi-Mau Summit Road all the way to Malaba… If possible, trucks should use a toll road from Nairobi or Mombasa all the way to Malaba to open up our borders for regional trade, deepen and tighten… Hon. Speaker, as you told us last week…"
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