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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, something else is missing here; Kenya has a coastal line. We have a port. We are about to develop another. Again, there is no mention of engineers involved in marine work, which is very key. For example, if we finished the Northern Corridor link of Lamu – Isiolo – Southern Sudan – Ethiopia, which involves very serious engineering--- We have a port. We have highways. We have railways. We have fibre optic cables. We have pipelines. Again, those also need to be covered. Why should we have a pipeline burst at Sinai and cost us lives, if we have engineers, who have the capacity to detect the wearing away of any part of the pipelines? There is technology to know the weak points on any installation. The penalties provided here for wrongdoing are too soft. If an engineer is involved with a multi billion pipeline and he is found guilty of wrongdoing, and you fine him, Kshs500,000, after killing 100 people, or after costing the economy billions of shillings, I think that is a joke. Those fines must be commensurate with the damage done to the economy. You have seen how high the fine was for the Indian nuclear accident; billions of dollars, because the fines must meet the gravity of the offence. So, the Minister, again, should look at this, and graduate these offences depending on, where the offence is; how it affects society, how it affects the economy, and the damage done to human life."
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