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    "id": 904649,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/904649/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you see the conversation we have had, I am glad Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. today confirmed that there are still challenges in Thwake in terms of compensation of locals. We are facing similar challenges in Karomenu in Thika and in Aror and Kimwarer Dam. When we raised these issues, people thought we were joking. As a country, we need to agree; between the period where you secure funding for projects, commence the project, loans and obligations run for the people of Kenya and the compensation of the citizens; there must be agreed timelines. This will ensure that we do not find ourselves in a situation like Aror and Kimwarer where two years down the line, you still tell people that the loan has been approved, the contractor has been given the contract and we are about to start repaying the loan. However, today, the Italian contractor said that they cannot access the site because compensation has not been done and the people on the ground have not been moved. Meanwhile the citizens of Kenya are already repaying the loan, the project cannot start and the people have not been compensated."
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