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    "id": 1181265,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "We should stand here in the Senate and say that we are going to grow our industries to the level of this UAE industries. This way, we will also import labour and say that, for example, there are so many Ugandans coming in because our Airline, Kenya Airways (KQ) has grown so big that we no longer have locals who we can hire. We should be looking at Saudi Arabia as a point of reference in terms of how to grow our economies to the point where we are importing labour. Look at our ports and how many employees we have. We should try and give perspective of this thing in such a way that we are not necessary encouraging Kenyans to go out. However, we are learning from the fact that there are countries that have so many jobs that they have to import labour. That is why Kenyans are getting on to planes. The whole domino effect of Kenyans getting on to planes and going to foreign countries is an industry in itself. There is an airline, that should be KQ that should be making money out of exporting these Kenyans to these places for these kind of jobs and opportunities that are there. There is a different perspective to this whole industry. The perspective should be that, one, we are lacking jobs and that is a fact. This Government is trying to work on creation of jobs through various forums such as the Hustler Fund and by creating new businesses and things like that. However, we should push more. Perhaps, we should question, how do we scale up KQ so that we can create job opportunities. How do we scale up for instance the Konza City which has been one big elephant? We just need one piece of legislation that forces every other online participant to have a data centre in Kenya. That in itself would spur thousands of jobs. We can have Google, Facebook or three data centres put up. All these people who will be cleaning in UAE, suddenly will have an opportunity to clean at our data centers in Konza City. So, that is also a conversation that we need to have as we talk about what is happening in Saudi Arabia. This is because, dealing with the immediate issues of our girls and our young people dying in Saudi Arabia is like putting a bandage. However, what is"
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