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    "id": 555101,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/555101/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "When you look at the amount of resources that we are spending by even attempting to repair the normal roads that we are constructing, we are losing a lot of money. The tarmac gets destroyed within no time. So, if we had, instead, invested in SGR all along, we would have saved the country the agony of using constructed roads which get destroyed within no time. Two, there is the cost of fuel. By fuelling all those trucks, the bills go to either Kenyans private pockets or to the Government. It is a cost to the Kenyan economy. We are going to bring down all those costs. I am sure that once we finish the first part--- I want also to acknowledge that Kenya has demonstrated leadership because, besides approving this Protocol, it has also taken the decisive step to undertake the first phase of SGR from Mombasa to Nairobi. I am sure the neighbouring countries will go beyond mere commitment to the Protocol and also move to finance their part so that, by the time the country is able to construct a SGR from Nairobi to Mombasa and then to Kisumu, the rest of the neighbouring countries, particularly Uganda and Rwanda, will have completed their bit.That will mean promoting trade, commerce and even providing means of mass transport to the people."
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