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    "id": 814387,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/814387/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mumias East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Benjamin Washiali",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Bill. I want to thank the framers of this Bill. I think they have been following what I have also been following, majorly in the media, the way the Government and investors have been suffering whenever they are developing a project. I was reading in some paper someone comparing the cost of SGR in Kenya and the cost of the railway line that was developed between Ethiopia and Djibouti. Of course, you cannot compare because of the aspect of compensation. Also, when Tullow Oil was developing the current oil fields in Turkana, there was something that came up in the newspapers: That one of us leaders of this country had acquired that land just before Tullow Oil discovered oil there. That tells you what is happening in this area. There was a time we learned that the Uganda Government was reluctant in joining the Kenya Government in developing a pipeline that would then take crude oil from the two countries for further processing. The reason they were citing was the cost of that pipeline which was determined by the cost of land. The problem we have in this country is the land policy."
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