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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "I would like to tell my good friend, Sen. Cherargei, who is a first time Member, that there are both written and unwritten Standing Orders of the House. Madam Temporary Speaker, I was giving an example about the development of Thika Superhighway, and I was trying to ask the House to interrogate the kind of development model it is where we get loans from foreign countries, in this case China, you have a small contribution by the Kenya Government, divide the works into three and give all of them to Chinese companies. The Chinese companies then come with their technology which is faster, the question of durability is debatable. They use their prisoners or those other people who provide cheap labour to do their jobs. They take back all the money because they are going to be paid, then you are left with the road and a loan to service and whoever negotiated the contract has also gone away with his 10 or 20 per cent of the cost of the project. Is this really sustainable, my fellow Senators? The issue is that we have to interrogate it. It is true that the value of the land has appreciated around Thika Superhighway and there are more constructions going on The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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