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    "id": 449784,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tonui",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
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    "content": "Doing history is part of this contribution and analysis. Therefore, I am saying that, that flagship project of SGR for Jubilee, if it is going to succeed, I believe we will remember Jubilee through the SGR. We must support that project so that we can transform the country. In this Report, it is clearly stated that the company which is going to construct the SGR – there were lots of stories in the media that the company which was going to do that project does not even have a legal standing. I think in the Report tabled by the Committee, it is clearly stated that it has a legal basis to transact business. Therefore we need to support the Report. The China Roads and Bridges Company is a legal entity and the Committee has verified it. The Committee visited its places and concluded that it has the financial capacity to do that project through the various banks. I think that is okay. The technical capacity has been assessed by the Committee and found to be okay. That is why we are also supporting. But I was just wondering if the railway which we are trying to put, the best speed a railway engine can move is 120 km per hour. Even hon. Members of PIC who went to China said that the trains there are moving at speeds of 330km per hour. I do not know why they did not go to that extend of ensuring that the train which we will have in this country should move at that very fast speed, so that when you move from Nairobi to Mombasa, you can take one and half hours. If you are moving from Mombasa to Malaba, it could take two to three hours. That could be the best. I would wish that the Jubilee Government thinks of ways of generating power to ensure that the railway, which it is going to put up, is electrified and not the one that uses diesel. The current railway system is using diesel. Why should we be sticking to it? We need to move to another mode of transport which uses electrified railway system now that we can generate more power in this country. With those remarks, I support this Report."
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