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    "id": 1115283,
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    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Musimba",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity once again. Today is an exciting day especially when you see things from the Cabinet in 2020 getting to this House for immediate ratification. In signing this Agreement, we are launching Kenya onto the world map. We are talking about non- aligned States coming into partnership with us. We are actually bringing down what used to be the cold war front and saying Kenya is open for business. I think the Committee, with a progressive Chair and progressive Members needs to go a step further. We have to start recognizing that JKIA is, indeed, small. We have to start thinking in the realms of Dubai International Airport and Hong Kong. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am sure you have already passed there before. You can see we need to actually launch an airport city and there is nowhere as profound as what we passed when we were discussing the Bilateral Air Service Agreement with America than the Konza City. This is because we have the land and we are able to dedicate a lot more space than we have at JKIA to actually house all those people. What we are discussing today is actually a nation which has… If I get my statistics right, their GDP is in excess of US$418 trillion and I think they have a population of roughly around 150 million people. You can see what inferences that brings to us; they are able to grow Kenya and they are a valued partner. If you look at the economy of America, it is almost $20 trillion in terms of their GDP. Those are the kind of people you need to partner with. Russia’s size is almost 1.7 trillion km² in comparison to Kenya, which is about 584000 km². If we are going to receive those kinds of guests into our country even if you will talk about 1 per cent, it is almost a million passengers a year. So, we need to be proactive. Already, we are experiencing a bit of congestion at JKIA. We need to be thinking about a Greenfields terminal. We should be thinking about a second runway. If we were talking about cargo, we are talking about passenger movement. We need to go bigger in scale and open up and have a complimentary airport that actually promotes the whole region, now that we are trying to connect the whole of Africa into Nairobi and launching Nairobi as a world capital. This will be quite momentous. In the areas of partnership, we have talked about the flower industry. What Russia is big on, is oil and gas production. We know the potentiality out of Lake Kivu in Rwanda and us connecting pipelines. We have been talking about an oil pipeline from South Sudan through to our The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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