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    "id": 629750,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/629750/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am one of the persons that requested an expansion on the statement that has been sought by Sen. Karaba to include the very important road which Sen. Wetangula talked about. This is the road from Nairobi-Nakuru-Eldoret to Uganda and South Sudan. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it defeats logic - I hope the Vice Chairperson is listening - that we can waste billions – sometimes the figure goes to trillions – to entertain a standard gauge railway that will ensure goods manufactured in other nations move very fast through the Indian Ocean to the hinterland of Kenya. That is ironical because we are supposed to transport goods that have been manufactured in Thika – because we have many industries there – and Nairobi Industrial Area where our own Kenyan main products are made. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to know whether the medium-term plan of Vision 2030 which is 2012 to 2017 is still alive or dead because the road we are talking about falls under that. Currently, we have over two million transit vehicles in Kenya. Therefore, we should go slowly on the issue of the railway. The railway should end in Nairobi as we concentrate on the open market of South Sudan which will open the north rift; West Pokot and Turkana counties and so on where there is a huge potential for market. You can sell a bag of maize for over Kshs7,000."
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