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    "id": 661494,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/661494/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "busiest ports in the world is the Port of Singapore which currently handles over 30 million 20 by 40 equivalent containers per year. Before the second berth is done at the Port of Mombasa, our container handling was hardly a million 20 by 40 equivalent of containers per year. This means that we cannot compare to the capacity of the Port of Singapore. By the way, Singapore is hardly the size of Rarieda Constituency. Other than merely expanding the port, we need to look at what is really hampering efficiency within the Port of Mombasa. I dare say here that, yes, it may look that it is in the national interest in trying to give Mombasa Port extra capacity, but handling containers alone is not what we require. After the containers are handled, we need to evacuate them. Look at the gridlock that is now happening between Mariakani and Mazeras today. After 50 years if, indeed, we were serious about improving transportation and the transport economy in this country, I do not see why the dualing of Mombasa Road all the way from Mombasa to Nakuru to Kisumu to Busia and even to Malaba through Eldoret should not have been a national priority. I have seen economic models which clearly suggest that if we had taken the bold step to undertake that project to dual the road all the way, the benefits are enormous. You have seen the kind of trauma and problems people go through. Only yesterday, Mombasa Road was blocked by tracks. The kind of excruciation that transporters go through because there is no alternative is painful. It is the only route."
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