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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. Let me talk shortly on this Motion. First, I want to thank the Public Investments Committee (PIC) under the leadership of the indomitable hon. Keynan. This country will never develop unless and until we establish a good infrastructural network. What will make Kenya a transportation hub? We should increase and fix our infrastructure like roads, airstrips, ports and railways. One advantage of having that contract is that we are going to get cheap money. We are going to borrow money, which is going to be used in establishing the railway line. It is going to cost us a fraction of what it would have cost us if we borrowed locally or from western countries. Two, the railway line will bring development in our rural areas. I, therefore, urge this Parliament to offer oversight through the Transport, Public Works and Housing Committee, and make sure that, once we have constructed that line from Londiani- Kericho-Kisii to Isebania, you must avoid that gentleman’s constituency a little bit so that the people of Kisii, Kericho and Migori, who are very hard working, can get their goods to the markets very easily and cheaply. We should also think about reviving an extension line from Nairobi-Nanyuki and, maybe, to Meru. We should have another from Kisumu-Butere and, maybe, up to Busia so that Mheshimiwa here can get the benefits of a railway line. I get shocked when an hon. Member of Parliament, who is elected by the people, stands and says: “We do not want to have a railway line which is going to serve our people.” I cannot really believe. But, be that as it may, PIC Committee has done its oversight role and found the project viable. We should support them. If you have any other facts that are not in the Report, then go to court."
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