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    "id": 732156,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/732156/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "id": 2749,
        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "One major project of this administration is the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). We are told that this project is actually ahead of time. It has never happened in this country that projects are completed ahead of time. Once it is completed, it will take us just four hours to Mombasa which will be cheaper than flying. Many Members of Parliament and Committees can take a train ride to save public coffers. One of the reasons why my constituents in Saku will vote for Jubilee in 2017 is because of the conclusion of the Nairobi-Addis Ababa Highway that has taken 50 years to be done. As the Member for Saku who lives 770 Kilometres from the city of Nairobi, it used to take me almost two days to get to Nairobi in 2013 but today it takes me just under eight hours. It is the agenda that we expect of a government that wants to move Kenya a step in the right direction. On the issue of job creation, the country cannot employ everyone in Government. Governments do not create jobs but they create an enabling environment so that investors, entrepreneurs, individuals, companies and institutions can set up shop in Kenya. This enables both white and blue chip companies to invest in Kenya and employ young Kenyans. On saluting the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), as one of the Kenyans who served under KDF in Somalia, the best thing that this Government and the previous Government of Hon. Kibaki did was to put boots on the ground in Somalia. That is why we are safe today. Had we listened to voices that told us to pull out the troops, terrorists would have taken over this country and it would easily collapse. Finally, I want to talk about devolution. For many of us, devolution is like the second independence. Those who have failed us are those ones---"
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