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    "id": 851026,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/851026/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "Indeed, if you look at the SGR compared to what they are doing in Tanzania where the SGR that is being built is along the same corridor with the central line. So, the question of acquisition of land does not arise except in very unique circumstances. In Ethiopia, acquisition of land for public use is much easier and much more direct. That has made both Ethiopia and Tanzania save a lot of money and resources in carrying out major infrastructure developments. In fact, I wonder why in Kenya we decide to build our SGR elsewhere rather than building it on the original corridor which is owned by the Government by dint of the fact that Kenya Railways (KR) is a State corporation. Instead, the Government decided to acquire land. In doing so, those who conceived of this project and others who are close to them, managed to speculate on the route of the new infrastructure. Even in areas where SGR is passing through land owned by the Kenya Railways Company, through fraud and corruption, some of it was allocated to individuals who were paid a lot of money."
}