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    "id": 971455,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, on the second matter of the Committee visit to Malaba International Border Point in Busia County, the Committee was accompanied by the Senator of Bungoma County, Sen. Wetangula who had sought a Statement on this matter. In seconding, I would call this the shame of Malaba or of this nation. At the time of the visit, the Government of Kenya had spent Kshs496 million to establish the one stop border point in Malaba. The balance for the completion of the project was only Kshs58 million. Since September, 2016 when this project stalled until the time that we visited, the Government of the Republic of Kenya was either unwilling or unable to find Kshs58 million to complete a section of not more than 40 metres and open up the area and make flow of traffic easy and make more money from the border point. Madam Temporary Speaker, on the submissions of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) officers working at the border point, they told us that in a single month with all those problems of traffic and all that, they were collecting more than Kshs250 million. However, the Government for more than three years could not find Kshs58 million to complete 40 metres of work that would ease transportation of a backlog of more than 20 kilometres. Some of these things can only happen in our country. However, this Senate must say no to that kind of laziness and lack of proper priorities on the part of the Government. The recommendation of this Committee was and still remains, that even if it means that the Government may have to get the services of the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) to complete the 40 metres, so be it, in order to ease transportation and open up that region for the benefit our country. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those remarks, I beg to second the Motion."
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