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    "id": 974742,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/974742/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "Further, we have been having a problem in the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing. Kenyans are saying that we are forcing people to use the SGR. What was on the Floor of the House recently was between us – the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing and other Members of Parliament. There was an order to force people to use the SGR. With regard to this matter of ease of doing business, we are moving from forcing people to use an installation such as the SGR to voluntary use. If you want to transport your goods, it is not a must to use the SGR. You can use the SGR or whatever you want. But to enable the SGR to work properly, there are proposals to give some incentives to the people who will promote the use of the facility. This is what happens world-wide. This is a big benefit to the people of this country. However, we will come up with some amendments because the requirement of somebody or a company to enjoy that facility in terms of being given reliefs is a little bit too high. Marking it at Kshs10 billion will create more monopoly, particularly in this industry of bulk handling. We do not want to make laws that will only benefit a number of specific people or cartels. If it is making it easy to do business, then it should be for everybody. It is not for a few individuals. As a Committee, we can see that if it goes on like that, then it will benefit just a few individuals. So, you might want to see my amendments as the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing. I propose to reduce that further, so that the people of Kenya can benefit. The more people use the SGR, the more money the SGR will earn and the more benefit to the people of Kenya. That is very critical."
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