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"content": "Thank you Hon. Speaker, Sir. I would like to comment on the last Statement that has been sought by the Sen. for Kisumu County, Sen. (Pro). Tom Ojienda, especially on the extension of the Standard Gauge Railway, all the way to Kisumu County. I agree with colleagues who have said that it will ease movement of people and goods. It is an economic viable project. The new Chairperson of the Committee in Roads, Transportation and Housing is here, Hon. Sen. Eddy, whom I have not had an opportunity of congratulating. Congratulations Sen. Eddy. As you take up this particular mandate, Hon. Eddy, I thought Sen. Kinyua would mention that I would wish that you expand your scope. Even as you look at the extension of the Standard Gauge Railway from Naivasha all the way to Kisumu--- What perplexes the people of Kenya is the fact that governments do not live in perpetuity in terms of projects that they have initiated. On this matter of the Standard Gauge Railway, Sen. Kinyua will tell you that we have a very magnificent railway terminus at a place called Chaka. We also have another one at Olkalou. The railway line between Gilgil, Olkalou to Nyahururu was rehabilitated. We only saw one train use that railway line and we do not know what became of it. Sen. Kinyua will also tell you that there was even a Standard Gauge Railway that was done all the way to Nanyuki in Laikipia County. However, nothing has been done to these effects. We do not know what became of that project. We have a magnificent railway terminus at Olkalou. We only see it as a white elephant. It was done, commissioned and opened but there is nothing to show for it, yet money of the people of Kenya was spent on these projects. What became of these projects because we cannot just abandon them because they were started by Uhuru Kenyatta nothing is being done to them? These are capital projects. These are not small projects like that of one million"
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"content": ", for instance. These are capital projects into which a lot of Government money has been pumped into them. Sen. Eddy, as you bring that report, we would want it to be The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "exhaustive. On the day that we will invite the Kenya Railways Service, ensure that these questions do not come with other Senators. Get as many answers as you can so that we can serve the people of Kenya better. Asante."
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"content": " Sen. Onyonka, please, proceed."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would actually like to pick up from where my brother, Sen. Methu, has stopped; that is, thank you, Sen. Ojienda, for raising that issue. I hope that when this SGR is going to be laid out, Kisii County will not be forgotten. There has been an announcement which was made by the Government that the SGR will pass through Nyamira and go down towards Kisumu."
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"content": "econdly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope that the Government will realize that the SGR from Mombasa to Nairobi has a bad name. We spent excessively and no one knows the details of the agreement. I therefore hope that the Government will take it upon itself to do a comparative analysis and look at what the Tanzania-Zambia Railways Authority (TAZARA) Railways has been given from Dodoma to Moshi. It is important that we compare what our brothers in the East African region have been given so that we look and see whether we are getting value for money. If this project is complete, as the Senator for Kisii County, I will be extremely happy because I will be taking the railway to Kisii when the Maai Mahiu line is not working, hon. Khalwale. The other issue I would like to seriously look at is the statement that has been sought by Sen. Chute and with all the accolades, this is an important question. The Lake Turkana Wind Power has been generating power from Samburu for the last seven years. No one knows the amount of money they make and the amount of capital investment which was done. There was a standard agreement between the amounts to be shared with the local community under the 30-70 percent rationale. That has not been made clear to us and the information that some of us are getting is that the Lake Turkana Wind Power is now providing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) services. They do toilets, provide one borehole here and there, and yet the amount of land that Lake Turkana Wind Power took is more than 170,000 acres of land. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the community and the people in that area have never been compensated since this project started. It is assumed that the owners of this company are foreigners. I believe that the local community should at least have been given even one simple director or even make sure that some of the children from that area are taken to university so that one day they take over the running of the project. In addition, the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) wants to do a second phase of this project. This is a very good idea, but how I pray that this project---"
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"content": " Give the Honorable Senator one minute to conclude his remarks."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. How I wish that this project can be open, transparent even if not to all Kenyans or Senators because we have the Committee on Roads, Transportation and Housing. My suggestion would be, let the Government disclose and tell the Committee of this House what it wants to do with KenGen, how much it will cost and whether it is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP). The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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