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    "id": 1281204,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1281204/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Budalangi, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Raphael Wanjala",
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    "content": "the Government of Kenya. Three years into the new Agreement, there is no traction on the implementation of the Agreement. The Italian side has made only token fulfillment on select obligations while avoiding the substantive ones. I am informing the House that the Committee on Implementation visited the Centre on 11th August 2023 to follow up on the status of implementation of a report tabled by the Departmental Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations regarding this emotive matter. The Agreement under Article 5 mandates the Space Centre's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to be part of the Joint Chairing Committee. The CEO from the Italian side was not present for that particular meeting. Thus, no one from the Italian side would adequately answer the Members who had been called upon. The Italian Ambassador clarified that he had replied to the questions sent a day before the meeting. The Committee agreed to meet them at a later date. In the next two weeks, we are supposed to meet them again. The Ministry of Defence is equally dissatisfied and has since raised concern. The Ministry is seeking this House's intervention in pushing for our country to have its significant share of the benefits that accrue from the activities at the Malindi Space Centre. The matters raised include: 1. Full disclosure and visibility of the commercial contracts entered into by the Malindi Space Centre with third parties. 2. Establishment of a Centre of Earth Observation for access to crucial earth observation data and capacity building on the development of applications. 3. More places for Kenyan Government personnel and visibility into the facility's operations, including the commercial contracts. 4. Tangible capacity building and support for the growth of Kenya's Space Sector. 5. Joint project that is impactful and beneficial to Kenya. Hon. Deputy Speaker, that is a synopsis of the response. I hereby submit the entire Report as received from the Ministry of Defence and the Management of the Italian Republic through the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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