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    "id": 1163836,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Khaniri",
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        "legal_name": "George Munyasa Khaniri",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, allow me to join my colleagues who have spoken before me in thanking my good neighbor, Sen. Cherargei, for coming up with this very good idea. The Tourism Promotion Fund was established to promote tourism in this country. Unfortunately, since it was established, they have only concentrated on wildlife promotion, maybe our beaches and hotels at the coast. Tourism was the second highest foreign earner in this country for many years, until recently, when it was overtaken. I think it is now number three. We have great potential in tourism. We could easily make tourism our number one foreign earner in this country if we do things right. One of the proposals is the one made by the Senator for Nandi, by trying to establish sports tourism. For example, India has done it. They have established what we call, “medical tourism.” It is earning the country so much foreign exchange since it was established. We could go beyond sports because we have a very rich culture for tourism that we can market. For the people who love watching birds, we have very unique birds in the Kakamega and Kaimosi forests. We have not exploited that area. I am sure that we can as well explore and make sports tourism an attraction as we have done in sports, particularly athletics. If we include things like the birds and the strong culture that I am talking about. We could possibly make tourism our number one foreign earner. I thank the Senator for Nandi for coming up with this Statement. Maybe we should not stop there. You could quickly draft a Bill and include all these aspects that we are talking about so that we make it a law instead of just requesting for a Statement from the Ministry or the Chairperson in charge of this. Do that. I want to be incorporated in that Bill. I know our time here now is very short. We can however move fast and establish a Bill on this particular one. I urge the Committee to expedite looking into this matter and ensure that they report back to the House within the stipulated 60 days."
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