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    "id": 1527672,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1527672/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13581,
        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "Thank you Hon. Speaker, Sir. I would like to comment on the last Statement that has been sought by the Sen. for Kisumu County, Sen. (Pro). Tom Ojienda, especially on the extension of the Standard Gauge Railway, all the way to Kisumu County. I agree with colleagues who have said that it will ease movement of people and goods. It is an economic viable project. The new Chairperson of the Committee in Roads, Transportation and Housing is here, Hon. Sen. Eddy, whom I have not had an opportunity of congratulating. Congratulations Sen. Eddy. As you take up this particular mandate, Hon. Eddy, I thought Sen. Kinyua would mention that I would wish that you expand your scope. Even as you look at the extension of the Standard Gauge Railway from Naivasha all the way to Kisumu--- What perplexes the people of Kenya is the fact that governments do not live in perpetuity in terms of projects that they have initiated. On this matter of the Standard Gauge Railway, Sen. Kinyua will tell you that we have a very magnificent railway terminus at a place called Chaka. We also have another one at Olkalou. The railway line between Gilgil, Olkalou to Nyahururu was rehabilitated. We only saw one train use that railway line and we do not know what became of it. Sen. Kinyua will also tell you that there was even a Standard Gauge Railway that was done all the way to Nanyuki in Laikipia County. However, nothing has been done to these effects. We do not know what became of that project. We have a magnificent railway terminus at Olkalou. We only see it as a white elephant. It was done, commissioned and opened but there is nothing to show for it, yet money of the people of Kenya was spent on these projects. What became of these projects because we cannot just abandon them because they were started by Uhuru Kenyatta nothing is being done to them? These are capital projects. These are not small projects like that of one million"
}