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    "id": 238251,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not envy the work of the Minister for Roads and Public Works because if you remember, when I was the Minister for Roads and Public Works I gave notice to people who had put up illegal structures on road reserves to remove them or else we remove them. We actually demolished some of the structures and I was heavily criticised. However, the situation that the Minister has described here obtains countrywide. It is true that there was a time when things had just gone haywire and people were just putting up structures wherever they could see empty plots. I want to appeal to the Minister, now that I am very conversant with the geography of the area. I have actually inspected the place severally. We are now presented with a fait accompli situation. Discussions are now going on and we should desist from the shylock mentality of a pound of flesh, but the blood will also be spilled. From a purely technical point of view, it is possible to do a redesign that will create not a kind of a bypass, but will move towards the west of the area. I know it is possible to redesign the road and this will help us avoid having to demolish some of these structures. It is even possible to redesign and relocate the weighbridge to some other place because I have inspected it. So, I want to appeal to the Minister to reconsider the possibility of a redesign."
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