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    "id": 936405,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/936405/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support the Statement by the Senator of Samburu. When the Chairperson of the Committee comes to answer to this Statement, will he confirm that the LAPSSET Project that was the brainchild of retired President Kibaki’s Government has not been frustrated, abandoned and those who intended to finance the project have pulled put out? Will he also confirm that, the LAPSSET Project which was supposed to create satellite cities, including Isiolo where there was to be an international airport has been abandoned. Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi are constructing their own railway line and pipeline to the Port of Tanga in Tanzania, instead of going to Lamu. Ethiopia has constructed a Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to Djibouti instead of depending on Lamu. South Sudan has negotiated and signed an agreement with Ethiopia to construct a pipeline from their oil fields to Djibouti, almost double the distance and abandoned the construction through Kenya to Lamu because of issues of governance, overpricing of land compensation and many other issues that cannot make this project viable and attractive. Will the Chairman also confirm to the House that financiers have pulled out from the much talked about coal plant in Lamu? The railway line that was supposed to be the off take of cargo to make Lamu Port viable as a LAPSSET project, will not be constructed because nobody is ready to fund it. The upshot is that the LAPSSETcorridor project for Lamu, Isiolo, Turkana, South Sudan and Ethiopia is asdead as a dodo."
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