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    "id": 7867,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Committee’s Report. I thank the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade for the work they have done in looking at the matter at the port that has caused unnecessary tension in terms of the way operations have been taking place at the port. For once, we have a comprehensive report done by a Committee of this House that has taken time and interviewed all the players, been to the site and focused on getting to the issues and helping the House and the country in terms of making decisions as we move forward. Let me say that we are very fortunate at the Port of Mombasa in terms of the growth that we are seeing. Even in the face of the global recession and reduction in activities in all the other ports, the Port of Mombasa has been registering growth. As of last year, we handled up to 19.1 million tones of commodities. The growth is projected to increase partly because of the growth in our neighbouring countries like Uganda, Sudan, the opportunities in Eastern DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Northern Tanzania and all the other countries that we serve. Obviously, we are responding to all these challenges through further expansion of the port. I am sure that when the Committee visited the Port, they observed the expansion we are doing at Berth No.19 in terms of the second container terminal. The contractor has been identified and is currently mobilizing to start works of expanding our Port to cope with increased demand in the future. Obviously, with the strategic decision to build a second port at Lamu--- We will open up a free port at Dongo Kundu."
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