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    "id": 1278840,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "I acknowledge the change of guard. I wish to take this opportunity to welcome the Temporary Speaker so that I do not get confused and call him “Madam Speaker.” That will be sacrilegious. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I was saying that the city I visited is not the biggest, second, or third biggest. It is the 10th biggest city. However, that city's development, governance and infrastructure are not comparable to any city in East and Central Africa. Where did we go wrong if, in the 60s, we were at par with South Korea? At the end of that trip, I told myself that the biggest difference between Kenya and South Korea today is not the brick-and-mortar issues or the laws they have made but the soft issues we never attend to. These soft issues are discipline, honesty, integrity, and meritocracy. The patriotism in that country is admirable. So, as we attend to the hard laws, we also need to ask ourselves what we are doing to attend to the soft issues in this country. What are we doing to encourage patriotism? What are we doing to encourage honesty? What are we doing to encourage meritocracy? If we do not attend to the soft issues while making such laws, we will never be at par with the countries that were at par with us in the 60s and are now considered first-world countries. I support this Bill because it is a step towards remedying some of the mischiefs we are presently attending to as a House. Worldcoin is a matter that you and I have to interrogate. It is live and pressing. Kenyans lined up in their thousands to have their eyes scanned under an oath that no committee of this House can tell what it entailed. No one knows what the medical implications would be after the scan. We do not see the connection between a scan of the iris and the cryptocurrency inducement given to Kenyans. I do not understand how a foreign company registered in the USA or Germany, with representation in the USA, defied orders to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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