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    "id": 1010244,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1010244/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, this thing is the same San Marco Space Centre. In addition, let us think as a country. People come to our country and use our resources and infrastructure to sell data worth billions of shillings. As a parliamentary Committee, we were not allowed to enter into the facility during the 10th Parliament. I am surprised that the Chair and the Deputy Chair of the Defence and Foreign Relations Committee are not here. I want to challenge the Committee to tell us whether they have entered into that facility. It is in the middle of the sea. The people of Ngomeni are poor with no school infrastructure for their children. Today you are being told to ratify an agreement for this facility. Moreover, I was amongst the people who enacted the Treaty Making and Ratification Act, 2012. I was in this House. Our children will judge us harshly. Hon. Speaker, I urge my colleagues that, unless we are told how Italy is benefiting, we ensure that the revenue accruing from that facility is shared 50/50 between Kenya and Italy, if not more for Kenya we should consider our position. Here we are, being told: “You will take the Deputy CEO’s position”, yet our researchers are not allowed to get in there. The amount of money we are getting is not there. Hon. Speaker, we are being duped. We are being given a complicated Italian name which is San Marco. I want to go on record - and I will be judged - let me remain the only one. I oppose this Treaty. The Italians are ripping off our country. In fact, they are the guys who are involved in dams. We must oppose this Report and tell the Ministry for Defence to go back. A Committee’s recommendation is invalid. What we are approving is the Agreement. Our recommendation will not be considered. Let us just tell the Ministry for Defence that we have nothing against…"
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