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    "id": 556469,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Sunjeev",
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        "legal_name": "Sunjeev Kour Birdi",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, my earlier intervention was not to look down on the parliamentary system but to simply express what happened. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank the Committee for this excellent Report because I have had a chance to look at it. I request you to get me a bucket because I feel like vomiting. An old man once told me that our country, Kenya, was sold long time ago. When I look at this Report today, I feel very sick because we sold our country long time ago. How can we pick our pieces and move forward? I agree with all Members of Parliament who have spoken today because a lot needs to be done. We should pick the pieces. One person’s downfall is another person’s advantage. We should always keep that in mind. We ask the following questions from this Report. Who are Essar? Where are they located, how can we get them and how can we bring them to face justice? One point that came out startlingly and I do not think anybody has mentioned it is that there is serious pollution around the 50-acre land that belongs to the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited (KPRL). This is the case and yet this company does not have any legal obligation to correct it. The National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) should take action against this company and all those people who have brought such a calamity to us. I call it “calamity” because if oil has been discovered today--- We are being told that the Lamu Port- Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) project is not looking into the land where KPRL is located. We are making a mistake and there is a huge loophole even as we speak. I would like to end by saying that I find it very strange when people go out shouting on the streets they are caught and punished but when people “eat” billions of shillings, nothing is done to them. This is a classic case. We look at red tape and people shunning things done under the carpet. As Kenyans, we should not allow anyone to do that anymore. If Egypt is today opening a new Suez Canal because it is trying to develop her economy, then we, as Kenyans, should do much more. Of course, we are ahead of them. Today, China looks at the problems as they appear and sorts them out and not 20 years down the road. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those many remarks, I support this Report. Thank you."
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