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    "id": 449168,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "are very important. The current railway system that we have is very old. It was constructed about 100 years ago. I am told that it was a motivating factor for Asians to migrate to this country. I am happy they found this country good and settled there. The railway line that we have is what we call the meter gauge railway. It is only a meter wide and because of that, it is very inefficient in terms of technology. It does not allow the locomotives to achieve the speed. Secondly, it has no capacity to transport as much as an SGR would transport. So, in terms of whether it is what we need, we need it. If we need it, what is the hullabaloo about? Whenever we have a tender of such a magnitude in Kenya - and because Kenyans are usually very innovative people - there are some businessmen who try to find whether they can take advantage of the situation and do business on the side. I want to note that a company that had a similar name with the Chinese company that was supposed to construct the railway – the China Roads and Bridges Construction Company (CRBC) - was registered locally by two Kenyans with the aim of causing confusion and doing some business on the side. Hon. Speaker, I will go by what the Committee has recommended."
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