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    "id": 419436,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " That makes sense, although the port already has authority under the law to open and maintain dry ports like the ICD at Embakasi. They have acquired 100 acres of land in Malaba and they are supposed to put up another dry port and so on. The Port of Mombasa alone, if efficiently run, and if you flushed out the corruption cartels there, can generate our current GDP in one year. It can turn around the economy of this country. We once visited a port in Belgium called Antwerp which has an annual turnover of twice our GDP. Mombasa is in a very unique position; it serves Kenya, Uganda, northern Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, eastern Congo, Southern Sudan and Ethiopia. It has a very rich catchment. I even noticed that goods destined for Zambia come from Mombasa by road up to Bujumbura and then it is put on steamers down Lake Tanganyika to Zambia. The port has enormous potential but what have we done? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the successive governments in this country have only looked at the Port of Mombasa as a cash cow for individuals. There is a lot of corruption. The port does not expand or modernize. The congestion that Members have been talking about is all there to the extent that if you do a proper evaluation of the Port of Mombasa, it does not function and operate at more than 30 per cent of its potential and capacity. If we want the port to operate, many ideas have been put forward. You do not need rocket science to know how a port operates. The managers of the Port of Mombasa have been around the world for the last 20 years. They visit Singapore to see how to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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