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"content": "econdly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope that the Government will realize that the SGR from Mombasa to Nairobi has a bad name. We spent excessively and no one knows the details of the agreement. I therefore hope that the Government will take it upon itself to do a comparative analysis and look at what the Tanzania-Zambia Railways Authority (TAZARA) Railways has been given from Dodoma to Moshi. It is important that we compare what our brothers in the East African region have been given so that we look and see whether we are getting value for money. If this project is complete, as the Senator for Kisii County, I will be extremely happy because I will be taking the railway to Kisii when the Maai Mahiu line is not working, hon. Khalwale. The other issue I would like to seriously look at is the statement that has been sought by Sen. Chute and with all the accolades, this is an important question. The Lake Turkana Wind Power has been generating power from Samburu for the last seven years. No one knows the amount of money they make and the amount of capital investment which was done. There was a standard agreement between the amounts to be shared with the local community under the 30-70 percent rationale. That has not been made clear to us and the information that some of us are getting is that the Lake Turkana Wind Power is now providing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) services. They do toilets, provide one borehole here and there, and yet the amount of land that Lake Turkana Wind Power took is more than 170,000 acres of land. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the community and the people in that area have never been compensated since this project started. It is assumed that the owners of this company are foreigners. I believe that the local community should at least have been given even one simple director or even make sure that some of the children from that area are taken to university so that one day they take over the running of the project. In addition, the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) wants to do a second phase of this project. This is a very good idea, but how I pray that this project---"
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