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    "id": 1126310,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "If you read through many of the Reports that they are giving it is about missed opportunities; things which if we had been better organised and serious with our work you would have appreciated how far our beautiful country would have gone just by leveraging on technology. We are being hailed across the rest of the globe that Kenya is the silicon Savannah of Africa because of our 5G network. We also have a bulging young population that actually leverages on ICT to do many things and actualize innovations that have come out of this country. The challenge remains us, we that are in leadership positions, to take our work more seriously and find a way of unlocking the potential that exists in that space. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir if you read about the countries that produce a lot of intellectual property in the ICT space, it is because there was something intentional about their leadership. Where young children from a very young age, right from primary all the way to university were introduced to this world and they grew into it. If you read through this particular Report – I was making this comment to my Colleagues as we were listening to comments from the rest of our Colleagues – you will realize that ICT space works on disruptions. How disruptive has the work of this Committee been? How do you know if a Committees work has been disruptive? You know it by the number of phone calls we receive as Members of the Senate. If you find people who are in a particular space calling to make inquiries about report done by this or that Committee, that they do not agree with it. That will tell you that, the Committee has done some disruptive work. I commend Sen. Moi and Members of the Committee on ICT. I appreciate the work that they have done because I have read through the report about the things that they have considered. However, it would have been more glorious if there had been disruptive reports that they brought to this House to the point of Members being engaged. For example, one of the issues that the Committee considered is market dominance by Safaricom. I wish we had a report presented by the Committee on ICT that would shake their business but make our economy better to a point---"
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