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    "id": 555085,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/555085/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2511,
        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "The RVR is in the process of modernising and expanding access roads to its own railway line as the SGR is going forward. I have a feeling that the Government is extremely single minded about the SGR and is not thinking about the broad question of how the railway investment, in whatever form it is, whether it is the SGR or the one meter gauge, can spur economic development towards Vision 2030 even though we say so in our rhetoric. If you look through the deliberations of the Committee, it is clear that these are issues being brought up as we go along. It is an “as we go along” kind of approach which is not a very good thing. By now we should have had a decent master plan on railway transportation taking full advantage of the link of the proposed northern corridor arrangement but realizing ultimately that we want to grow our economy. We are not seeking to grow the economy of the last partner. We are seeking to grow our economy and countries along the line will also seek to grow their own economies. I would hope that as they think forward on these issues and as they try to marry the SGR plus the rest of the railway network that we expect to expand, parts of this country, the agricultural interior like western Kenya, will be considered."
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