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    "id": 51102,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/51102/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sambu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 137,
        "legal_name": "Alfred B. Wekesa Sambu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, equally worrying is the slow pace of implementing the infrastructure flagship projects identified in Kenya’s development blue print, Vision 2030. The pace is slow in developing the following projects: Lamu Port, light railway line around Nairobi, standard gauge railway line, among others. Policies and actions towards development and distribution of alternative energy sources are not clear, yet this country has unpredictable water source to continue relying on hydro-power. However, hydro-power is expensive in addition to be being in short supply, thereby attributing to under-performance of useful programmes such as the Rural Electrification Programme (REP). The Committee is also concerned over the ever increasing fuel prices, which negatively impact on the wellbeing of Kenyans. The petroleum products price controls introduced by the Minister of Energy in December 2010 have largely failed to meet their intended objectives. As we debate this Report today, Members are aware that Kenyans are paying a high transportation cost. Kenyans would have been saved this expense if we had a well developed railway system. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the human resource development sector, Members are concerned that despite the huge resources directed to the education sector, the ratio of pupils to teachers in public schools in the rural areas remains a challenge,"
}