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    "content": "jetties so that we have more than one terminal? This makes the port extremely inefficient and, consequently, we lose a lot of business. This has forced some of the member states of the East African Community to start exploring the possibility of using the Port of Dar- es-Salaam. On the issue of efficiency, I want to make a statement about the ferry services in Mombasa. The ferry service is a joke. We spent so much money in purchasing very expensive vessels purely for purposes of doing 50-100 metres from the city side of Mombasa to Likoni side. There is a huge opportunity - and I hope the County Government of Mombasa will take advantage - you will find that you can use the ferry services to sort out traffic jams in Mombasa because a majority of the people who work on the island in the city centre, they live on the mainland and all of them approach the mainland through either Nyali Bridge, the ferry or Makupa Causeway. It is possible to expand the ferry services so that we have a water transport system that goes round the island to the extent that when the ferry goes round the island, it picks commuters at Likoni ferry, at Nyali Bridge and Makupa causeway. As it does so, it drops them at various working spots in the city. This is an easy way of sorting out congestion in the city of Mombasa. It is an easy way of making transport efficient in that city and therefore improving the business practice of the town. Mr. Temporary Speaker, now that I am on the issue of transport, it is important that members of this House know that as early as 1979, a report that had been commissioned by the Government of the Late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta had already decided that we should build a bridge connecting the south coast to the mainland. Why it has taken all these years and nothing has been done, one can only guess. I want to urge the Committee as I support them in this report that you have been very active, and I am starting to think that the Gideon Moi led Committee is starting to emerge as the most active in the House and I must compliment them. I want to urge them to go into the issue of the emerging oil producing sector in this country. We want to hear you, as members of the Committee, that you have met the Executive and they have assured you about the negotiations going on between the Government of Kenya and the companies extracting oil so that the royalties that those companies will be paying to this country should not be a paltry 5 per cent as they were doing to all the oil producing countries of Africa from the western part of the continent. Our continent has been producing and exporting oil and the poverty in West Africa is not acceptable. This is because the leaders chose to be bribed instead of negotiating for better royalties and taxation procedures. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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