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    "speaker_name": ". Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, production of sanitary towels - just think about it - is nothing. It is a piece of cloth or something in which you put cotton and it costs money. We have demand of about 15 to 20 million per month for sanitary towels that are used by these people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what can stop us from producing sanitary towels in this country? Should we buy such things? A small piece of paper with cotton in it to absorb menstrual blood is not something we should be importing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, universities are busy holding functions in Mombasa County, saying how university fees should be raised so that they get salaries. Those professors are jokers. They are employed at the university and paid by the Exchequer to do research. When you research, you get people and institutions that fund research. You will not have to picket. In fact, you will have a lot of money and employ many people in the supply chain. Innovation will open up the sports economy. I was discussing with some people who are in a better Kenya and they told me that the sports economy has the potential of over Kshs400 billion per annum in this country. Which means that the sports economy alone can fund the entire budget of the 47 counties of Kenya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, last but not least, you are sitting on gold, on the blue economy. Kilifi, Mombasa, Homa Bay, Siaya, Busia, Kisumu and Migori counties are sitting on the gold of the blue economy. Up to this day, I have never understood why we do not have waterborne transport across Lake Victoria, both commercial and sports. That is blue economy and we can make money. Every time someone is thinking about Lake Victoria, they only think about fish. We can do more in this lake. With those remarks, I second this Motion."
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