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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogalo",
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        "legal_name": "George Oner Ogalo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, last week, I was not in. The people in my constituency told me that you were calling out my name in the House. I was away on parliamentary business. I was not just walking around the country. On this Motion, I do not know whether to cry or support it. That is because when you watch news and see Kenyans dying from simple ailments because they do not have medicine in hospitals, or you see them die as a result of hunger, and then you see a country that is trying to spend over Kshs300 billion to build a railway to connect Mombasa and Nairobi - which is already connected - it looks to me like a family which is going hungry and is unable to pay fees borrowing money to buy a plane. I know many of my colleagues are supporting SGR. But the priorities of this Jubilee Government are beginning to--- I am beginning to wonder whether they love Kenya or the contractors. We have seen them trying to buy laptops instead of building classrooms. We are now seeing them building a railway instead of investing the money to build roads that are more labour-intensive to spur the economy. This thing will cost Kshs3 billion which will go into the hands of the Chinese. They will come here and construct the railway and walk away; no Kenyans will be involved in this process. If I were in the Jubilee Government today, I would ask them to first of all build hospitals, schools and roads in all counties before they go for superfluous projects like SGR. Hon. Speaker, the process of procuring with regard to SGR started before we amended the law on external loans. I wonder how the Government was able to sign deals The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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