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    "id": 1115284,
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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": "Port in Lamu. These are things which are complimentary. We are able to get a lot of technical input but, more importantly, for investors to come and partner with us and move through, because when we are thinking about those projects, being able to put up a rail link between Lamu through to South Sudan, those are the projects which are going to take a CapEx of almost a trillion shillings moving forward in the next five years. We need to be thinking strategically on how to package this, what sort of partners we have and the incentives that will bring them here. The Russian business people are quite strong and robust. Their banks are even bigger and we are able to have those sorts of partnerships with their Exports and Imports (EXIMS). We call upon every single stakeholder through this air agreement to look proactively and forward and see the potentiality of bringing Kenya as a melting point for, indeed, the region’s resources and tapping this to grow ourselves. In the arena of education from around independence, we had many airlifts of people who were going out there. We need to embrace languages. If we are opening up to China, let us embrace Mandarin in to our curricular. English is already there for the Americans. Let us also embrace Russian language. Let people learn Russian. Let us have a lot of mix in terms of exchange students. How can we get Russian students to come and study here vis-a-viz even in the other countries like Botswana? We have universities which are power houses. They were programmes out of Jomo Kenyatta into Kaduna in Nigeria. We have the University of Nairobi which have satellite campuses which were traditionally there. Let us open this up so that in the area of education and science, we become a melting point that complements all those transport linkages. I really support the committee."
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