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    "id": 205916,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/205916/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamunyinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute on this Motion. I think this is the first time this Ministry's Vote has come before the House as opposed to previously when it was passed through Guillotine. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will start from the point Mr. Muturi has stopped. When the issue of restructuring of the Kenya Railways Corporation came to light, it was generally believed that it was going to help Kenyans and this country to get railway business on a healthy footing. The kind of investment we were told about by the group of companies that invested in this railway system, should have been able even to bring about some new coaches, wagons and introduce passenger services which had been stopped in areas like Malaba route. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the result of this restructuring has occasioned the sacking of Kenyans, who have now been made unemployed. Some of the employees who were laid off have not been paid to date. You recently heard that they had been evicted from their houses. You also heard Mr. Muturi mention Trans-Century, the firm that is said to have invested in the Rift Valley Railways (RVR). The thing has failed and the only honourable thing that can be done now is to terminate the whole process because of the suffering."
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