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    "id": 535459,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ngare",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Greenfield Project, which is supposed to have started, will start and our JKIA will be of international class as it should be. The annuity programme is a very good idea. Constructing 10,000 kilometres within five years is a very good idea. Since Independence, Kenya has had 14,000 kilometres. If we can do this within ten years, we shall have done about 70 per cent of what we have achieved in 50 years. However, we have a problem with this programme. It was supposed to start in the Financial Year 2015/2016 with the first 2,000 kilometres. The tendering for the first phase of the 2,000 kilometres was done last year. Up to now, it has not been awarded. The tenders for the second phase of the 2,000 kilometres were supposed to have been submitted by January. They have been pushed to 10th April, 2015. This programme is behind schedule and we expect the people who are involved in it to expedite it. My Ndia Constituency was supposed to benefit from this. My constituents are wondering where the first project is in the constituency. I urge the Government to expedite this particular project. The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Project is being held as one of the most important projects in this continent, but it has also not taken off properly. I hope what the President has said he is going to initiate will happen very soon. I thank the Government for embarking on a very ambitious programme. On the President‟s apology, this is the first time a sitting president has done this. He will go in the annals of history like Mandela for having apologised to the people of Kenya for all the atrocities meted out to the Kenyan population. This will herald a new beginning in reconciling all the people of Kenya. I hope that they all take it very seriously. I applaud the President for the apology. There is the issue of corruption which is a cancer eating our society. If we do not curb this menace, it will eat our society completely. I urge the people to accept that this list is just a tip of the iceberg. There are a lot of people up there who have not been covered, but let us accept it. However, let the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) not use it as a witch-hunting tool. They should use it properly, do all the investigations and whoever will be found guilty can be prosecuted. Thank you very much. I support this Motion."
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