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    "id": 1418550,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keyna",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "have the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC). In 1968, and I am sure many of you were born after 1968, the GDP of the Republic of Kenya was the same as the one of South Korea. What has changed today? The GDP of South Korea is 50 times bigger than that of Kenya. In 1968, Botswana borrowed from Kenya the idea of setting up a meat commission like the KMC. Where are we today? Today, Botswana provides meat to the entire world whilst KMC is under receivership. What has taken us there? Tribalism, regionalism, corruption, nepotism and everything else that we can attribute to this negative thinking that Hon. Baya was trying to introduce. I thought Hon. Baya, being a very progressive Deputy Leader of the Majority Party, should tell us how we can get out of those perennial challenges in the name of tribalism and regionalism so that Kenya can join the league of developed nations. When I look at this Bill, it is dealing with the formations of those regional boards. It is an administrative issue. I remind my colleagues here today that, today, you are a Member of Parliament but, tomorrow, you could be an ordinary citizen. Therefore, as we do this, we should legislate for posterity not having a particular issue or a particular person in mind. That is why the collective thought of this particular group, and our Secretary-General of the Northern Kenya Parliamentary Group is a Member of this Committee, is good. Those are the things that we need to address. We need to have the entity that deals with northern Kenya so that Ewaso Nyiro Development Authority can function efficiently and effectively. They have one of the best managing directors but, because of the structural challenges, that organisation cannot work. Those are some of the things that this Bill attempts to cure. I commend the Committee. In conclusion, Hon. Temporary Speaker, there comes a time, as the late Professor George Saitoti said, when the country is more important than an individual’s thinking. We need to collectively put our thoughts together so that the Kenya that we have, through our little contribution, joins the league of developed nations. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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