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    "id": 1230368,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marsabit County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Naomi Waqo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to add my voice to this very important Motion. I congratulate Hon. Martin Ogindo and the Committee that sat and compiled this Report. I have gone through the Report and I have seen that Hon. Martin Ogindo is qualified and is well experienced. I have a lot of faith in him; he will bring the necessary growth and transformation in that sector. Taking into consideration the fact that the blue economy is the future of our country, I urge him to give attention to the few points that I will raise so that we grow this sector to its full capacity. We know very well that water resources are spread over 42 per cent of Kenya’s total land area, which makes our country a maritime State. That is a gift that God has given us and we need to utilise it well and earn our living from it. If we give a lot of attention to it and if the Government invests a lot in the sector, we will get good income. Investing in it will create more jobs for our people. Hon. Temporary Speaker, many of our youth are jobless and we are encountering problems because they are often idle. This will also help us to spur our economy as well as cater for our food security. We need to invest in the Blue Economy as a country, especially now when we have many investors. We know that in the past we have not done well in investing in this area, but this is the time that we should give this sector the attention it deserves as a country and as the Kenya Kwanza Government so that we can gain from it."
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