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    "id": 205418,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/205418/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Maj-Gen. Nkaisserry",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 192,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Kasaine Ole Nkaissery",
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    "content": "Where are the economic planners? Can they not see that the Gulf region will remain the most important region in the world for the next 20 to 30 years? Yet we cannot think of how to develop the Port of Mombasa, first of all as a free port and secondly as a strategic, launching and staging zone. Where are the planners in the Ministry? We have none! Actually, I am wondering whether the planners in the Ministry have complied with their performance contracts. I wish I was the examiner! I would fail all of them! Look at Southern Ethiopia. The Port of Lamu would have been the greatest opportunity. We should have constructed a railway line through Wajir all the way to Southern Ethiopia. I have seen in the newspapers today that there is Kshs700 billion, just because we are debating this Vote. What has happened since this Government came to power? We cannot just wake up overnight and say: \"We are doing this!\" Look at the issue of Wajir Airstrip. We built it for security purposes, but we can turn it into an economic airport, from where we can take our produce from North Eastern Province to the Middle East. Look at what this Government did! When they came to power, they closed the Eldoret Airport for political reasons. They have not even thought of improving Lokichoggio Airstrip. Southern Sudan has opened up. We are not even thinking of putting up a strategic airport in Isiolo or Marsabit to take care of our northern area. Where are the economic planners? This is really a problem for this Government! Where is the economic planner? I want to know! I know the Minister; he is my friend, but I think he needs to move to ensure that the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) and the Kenya Railways Corporation are activated. At the moment, I think they are dormant, and we would like to strengthen and improve the Port of Mombasa, the JKIA and Eldoret Airport to international level, and the Kisumu Airport so that the flow of traffic is improved and we create--- So many people will be travelling through Kenya and they will bring money to our country, which will improve our economy. So, I just would like to recommend, or suggest, to the Minister that after we pass this Vote, he must go to the drawing board and review the concessionary agreement between the RVR and the Kenya Government. I would like to recommend that it be cancelled because it is not doing anything to Kenya. We cannot give contracts to our competitors. With those few remarks, I support."
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