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    "id": 802183,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Losiakou",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I also want to join the other Members to thank my colleague for being very passionate about this. So that I spend my 10 minutes properly, I thank you for giving me this opportunity and I want to present the report of the Transport Committee. In this Committee, we oversee four State departments as follows: (i) State Department of Infrastructure has received Kshs180 billion. For purposes of simple understanding, the Department is about roads basically. (ii) State Department of Transport is going to receive, if Members approve, Kshs100 billion. This money is distributed amongst big projects that I am going to mention. Rail transport is going to receive Kshs74 billion. This is from Nairobi to Naivasha for what is normally known as SGR. In the same Department, we have marine transport which has been allocated Kshs12 billion. Basically, this money will go to the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor Project. That is the conclusion of the development of the three berths in Lamu to facilitate our crude oil from Turkana to be transported. (iii) State Department of Maritime Affairs has been allocated Kshs1.6 billion. (iv) State Department of Housing, Urban Development and Public Works has been allocated Kshs32 billion. Having said that, the following are our humble observations as a Committee: (a) Out of the Kshs180 billion that is going to roads, I want to thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee for seeing it fit to allocate more money, because our initial budget was Kshs170 billion. This was forgetting one element and Members and the people of Kenya will agree that there is a problem of roads all over the country. We had rains; we had blessing, but that blessing came with casualties. This year, it rained in all parts of the country. Therefore, I made a presentation on behalf of the Committee and the Ministry to ask for Kshs18 billion which was going to be used to reconstruct our country. The Committee was fair enough to us and was able to allocate to us Kshs8.7 billion. What we had recommended and we are now seeking approval from this House is that every constituency should receive Kshs30 million of this money The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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