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    "id": 501183,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sumra",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1425,
        "legal_name": "Irshadali Mohomed Sumra",
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    "content": "Members of Parliament from Nairobi to join hands, so that we can also contribute to the welfare of Nairobi. When we talk about decongesting the City, we are not talking about removing cars, buses and matatu s from the City centre. There are people who are ready to invest money; not the Government. If you remember there is the Build-Own-Lease-Transfer model. Investors are ready to come and put metro rails in Nairobi. We are late for the metro railways. Somebody can travel in 15 minutes from Embakasi to the City by metro railway on one pillar, not on the road. People can travel from Athi River to the Nairobi City on one pillar. Eastlands, and you are one of Eastlanders, is one of the highly populated areas in the country. Eastlands is congested with cars from Outer Ring Road. We could emulate Dar-es-Salaam. Buses from Central Province should off load passengers in Kasarani where we should have metro railways. Buses from other regions should offload passengers near Kikuyu. We should not have a single bus in the City Centre. Buses from Central Province should be somewhere in Kasarani and others in Syokimau. Then we can create jobs for taxi and matatu operators. I urge the Government to invite tenders from private investors who will invest in railway transport. I am sure we will get them. I have been in touch with some of the metro railway investors. We should also ask how the 20 acres have been disposed if they have been disposed of. This is not just a road expansion but it is an Eastlands terminus. The other thing that is congesting the Outer Ring and Jogoo roads is that in the last two years, a Cabinet Secretary decided to close the road from Taj Mall to the airport. The decision inconveniences our people and they have to use matatus from there to Mombasa Road and then from Mombasa Road to the airport. The people who work in companies that park vegetables for export literally walk to the airport. We want the Chairman of the Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing to tell us why this is happening. I was told that this is a security measure as this is a no fly zone, but just 400 metres down the road, there is the Mombasa Road. So, the Cabinet Secretary should open that road to decongest the Outer Ring Road. I would not like to take much of the House’s time. As members of the National Assembly from Nairobi, including the Chair, we should get together. We should literally push for the metro railway."
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