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    "id": 188027,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/188027/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Otieno",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Public Service",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. This certainly is a very good loan facility, at 40 years, with ten years grace, 0.2 per cent interest in one component and 0.01 per cent interest on the rest. The Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transport and the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) need to be congratulated in concluding this deal with the Japanese Government. We are likely to see a properly structured and operated Port, but there may be discordance that the rest of the transport system in the up-country will be a bottle-neck. You cannot have an efficiently operating port and, yet, the railway system is not able to move the containers up- country and the road system is overloaded in every other section. So, the problem upstream needs to be considered currently with this facility, so that in five to seven years, when the port will reach world class standards, our railway and road systems should equally by then have been prepared. If anything, the challenge of this facility is that the Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Finance should look for additional funding to streamline the railway, at least, right through the central system and ensure that the road network is able to cope with the goods that will be coming up-country."
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