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    "id": 303893,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/303893/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kamama",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Asman Abongutum Kamama",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, first of all I want to totally support this Bill. I want to congratulate the Minister for fast tracking the bringing of this Bill to the Floor of this House. We have a lot of challenges as a country. You know by the year 2030 we will be 60 million people in this country, and 20 million people will be residing in Nairobi. So we have monumental challenges, as a country, to feed and provide services to the millions of Kenyans. Therefore, this Bill will actualize all our priorities and the services required for the many people we are going to have in future. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have a lot of potential in many areas. That is why the Public/Private Partnership (PPP) will come in. In mining and wind power, we have tremendous potential, especially in Marsabit and Turkana. In geothermal energy, my constituency alone can actually serve this country. We have a potential of more than 1,500 megawatts. There is coal. We can also have partnership in roads, railway transport; because the Government is always poor at business, we need to invest so as to create wealth. LAPSSET is a project that will transform the entire North Eastern Province or the entire northern Kenya. Therefore, we need to move in. I want to ask the Minister for Finance to actually pay extra attention to that project; Kshs2 billion for it is insufficient. We want so many investors to come in. So we want so many investors. We want like five investors to start all those projects all the way from Lamu to Nadapal."
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