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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, they are the ones who cash the money but the locals who live in that area do not benefit in any way. We must ensure that we protect this. In fact, there is a law that is in the National Assembly that will soon come to this House that will curb the amount of money that one will ask for compensation in a particular area to ensure that we do not have this kind of characters who will fleece locals in the name of making exorbitant amounts of money. The reason why Kenyans are complaining that the cost of SGR was so exorbitant is because the compensation figure is unbelievable. We will not develop the Lamu Port- Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport project (LAPSET), construct the airports or the roads in this country if there are conmen who own nothing but come to fleece money from local people, inflate the prizes then the cost of project becomes too high. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have heard the argument that the Port of Mombasa will be replaced by SGR. This is the most fallacious argument I have ever heard. There is no way to export the Indian Ocean to Naivasha. That is frivolous and preposterous. We must condemn that kind of argument. It must not be made by anyone who has gone to any school. We know that when we have ---"
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