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"speaker_name": "August 12, 2009 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2547 Mr. Nyamweya",
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"content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. What I find most amazing is that almost all the raw materials that are required by industries in the world come from Africa and, yet, here in Africa, we are completely unable to industrialize. That is truly amazing! It is pathetic! I would like to tell the Minister so. If he wanted Kshs14 billion, how did he accept Kshs3 billion? How? What do you want Kshs3 billion for? You will not be able to do anything with that! Honestly, you should simply say: âLook, close the Ministry and we all go homeâ, rather than saying: âThat is a useful thing!â That is because you are not going to do anything useful! If, as a country, we do not understand the meaning of industrialization--- From ancient times, industries have been the ones that make countries flourish. If we cannot accept that industrialization is the key to our success then, honestly, we have no business! Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, everybody is talking about agriculture, but all the other countries that have progressed do not rely on agriculture. We are so well placed strategically, right at the shores of Indian Ocean. Everything that goes up and down passes through our shores. We are giving away everything that we are doing. The other day, you heard that we are giving away the whole of--- Is it the titanium at the Coast? We have iron ore, coal and everything that there is here! But, really, what does the Ministry of Industrialization want to tell us? Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am going to support their miserable Kshs3 billion because, perhaps, they need to have it so that they can have something to do but, honestly, it is really not worth the effort. We are not serious as a country! We go round in circles. Every day, we are talking about Mau, Hague and everything else. But the very serious things which matter to us like putting food on our table, employing our people and providing preventive care and medicine; we do not talk about them! Look at the Chamber now! This is the survival of Kenya and yet, hon. Members do not seem to think so! They will come here when they hear about the Hague. They will come here when they hear about something else. But the very thing that makes the difference is of no concern to us!"
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