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    "id": 205658,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/205658/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "menace, some forms of Mungiki -like syndicates are operating in all our matatu termini throughout the country. For example, in Kisii, matatus carry excess passengers. The matatus that are licensed to carry 14 people carry up to 30 passengers. The 30 people who were killed and over 23 people who were maimed in the accident that I have referred to were in two matatus. That means that each one of them had more than 25 passengers, yet they had passed through two police roadblocks between the Kisii Bus Terminus and where the accident occurred, one-and-a-half kilometre away. During the period when the \"Michuki\" rules were enforced, that could not have happened. So, I am beseeching this Ministry to take up the issue seriously and bring some sanity on our roads as we face the General Election and Christmas holidays. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Ministry is responsible for a service that can generate a lot of income for this country. The Port of Singapore, for example, generates revenue which is 20 times the total Government revenue of this country in a year. This is a port in a small country with a population of 4.5 million people. Why do we want to invent the wheel when it has already been invented? Why can we not replicate some of the successful ports, for example, Port of Dubai and the Port of Djibouti which was very small five years ago? Its operations were a small fraction of the operations of the Port of Mombasa. Today, it has surpassed the Port of Mombasa because they accepted the management of the Port of Dubai to move in without further investment by the Government of Djibouti and convert it to a modern port. When the management of the Port of Dubai moved into the Port of Djibouti - That was in the last Parliament; I served in the same Committee and we visited Dubai, Singapore and Australia. We then compiled a report which recommended that the Port of Mombasa replicates some of the developments in those other ports. In fact, at that time, the Ambassador of Kenya to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) fully negotiated- --"
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