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    "id": 1060375,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1060375/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": "This country has done very well in fiber connection and Information Technology, but we have a long way to go when it comes to the last mile connectivity programme because just like water, you may have trunks of pipes yet if you do not have the last mile connectivity, it is of no utility. The same goes for the internet. You may have a lot of trunk fiber around the country, but if you do not have the last mile connectivity, it is of no use to the investors and also to the population of Kenya. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Kenya is endowed with a very robust human resource. Kenyans are very highly trained. I think it will go a long way in creating more investors to come into our country so that we can open up opportunities for the many enterprising Kenyans. I have read something about what we are amending. Our grandfathers relied on agrarian economies, goats, cows and farming. They relied on enterprise and especially industrialisation. At our age, whereas we also have to rely to some degree on those two, our economy is more open. Our generation lives online, eats online, works online and therefore, gets paid online. For us to have come up with laws that admit that we are living in different times, it is good for us to keep legislating on the basis of the times we are living in. Even doing away with the physical seal is one way of telling the many business people doing business online that you do not have to be tied to the physical things like the physical seal that we know many companies rely on. As I close, we have to come to an agreement as a nation and even as a House that the work of the Government when we talk about business is that it must be left to enabling and to regulation. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have seen our Government engaging in too many businesses, many of which make losses, such as we saw today at the Kenya Airways. The role of business should be left to business people and not the Government. I have to reference something I really like reading about, namely, that in 1960, President Gen. Park took the helm in South Korea for only 19 years, but because he led an export-led economy, South Korea’s exports grew 364 times. Companies that we see today such as Samsung were textile companies before. I am just emphasising this to show the difference between nations that go ahead of others primarily on the basis of good leadership. We have a good opportunity to transform our country."
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