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    "id": 1527689,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1527689/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "id": 13588,
        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "of the project will be higher. It will mean that you will have to compensate the land owners along the route and yet we already have railway land, all the way from Kisumu to Luanda. I wonder why the Kenya Railways has decided to avoid that route and they are using alternative routes, which effectively means that the Kisumu-Luanda portion will be left out of this project. That does not make any economic sense to us, as leaders in that region. We therefore would like to not only know about the feasibility studies, but we would like the Committee to find out what is the route plan for this project, so that deserving areas like Luanda, which already has railway facilities can also benefit from this project. Luanda area has a lot of infrastructure and not just land. Recently, the Government also launched an industrial park which makes sense, because if we have the SGR and we have an industrial park, it means the products that will be produced in the industrial park will be transported easily by railway to different parts of the world. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I, therefore, think this project needs to be re-looked at, because already it is showing signs of---"
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