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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Senator for Kisii, Sen. Onyonka who is out of the country on official business, I join you in welcoming the delegation from Kisii County Assembly. It is a good thing when county assemblies come to benchmark at the Senate instead of going to foreign countries. It is a practise that we as chairs of committees have encouraged. In the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), every time we have a hearing for a county, we invite the relevant corresponding PAC. I want to assure the delegation through you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, that they will find very good resources here at the Senate. The Senate has got some of the finest human resource in the subject area that they are seized of that is broadcasting. We also hope that we can learn something from them because we know county assemblies might be smaller in terms of footprint but might be more agile. So, when they come to the Senate, it is not a one-way traffic. We hope that we are going to learn something positive out of Kisii. Mr. Speaker, Sir, while we were having lunch, I saw the Senate Majority Leader somewhere and he was trying to find out who one of the delegation members was. I think there is hon. Bosibori in that delegation who at the end of this I am going to hook up with Sen. Cheruiyot, for reasons that are aimed at deepening and widening integration between counties that neighbour each other. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also wish to welcome the students from Maasai Mara University who are studying political science. The questions are; do we need more politicians in this country? Do we need more preachers? Do we need more people going to the bushes to pray for rain in this country, or we need more policy makers? I want to challenge the students from Maasai Mara University, that even though your primary course is political science, make sure you diversify into something that can provide productive and tangible benefits to this country. You do not need a qualification to come to this House. This House has got fishermen. This House has got herdsmen like the beautiful Senator on my left. This House has got sugarcane cutters like Sen. Oketch Gicheru from Migori County who grew up in the sugarcane plantations of Sony Sugar Company. You do not need an academic qualification to be a good politician. This country needs more people who can tell us the truth about the path that we are taking, the policy options that we adopt and how we can catch up with other countries. While we have been demonstrating and picketing and fighting in this House, Kenya has been overtaken and now it is the eighth economy in Africa. Ethiopia and Angola have overtaken Kenya. Very soon, the State of Lagos is going to overtake Kenya in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Currently, the State of Lagos has a GDP of USD102 billion while Kenya has a GDP of USD110 billion. If Lagos was a country, perhaps it might have been the 10th largest economy in Africa."
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