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    "id": 1473202,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang'",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "As I said, the product that you are calling diaspora remittance is human capital. When we went to the United States, in the State of Minnesota, we found highly trained Kenyan doctors running the medical services in that country. That is how it used to be in the past. They did not go there yesterday; they went there 20 years ago. That is how it used to be in the past. We would produce doctors and export them We used to produce engineers and export them. The London Metropolitan Transport System was designed and is supported by a Kenyan, produced and educated here in Kenya. In Minnesota, we heard that the head of nursing and medical services is trained at the University of Nairobi and did his internship in Kenya. That is a kind of export that we should be doing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, even when it comes to coffee, we export prime coffee. We export prime tea. That is what Kenya has been known for and it should be known for. That is what our Government should strive to be known for, that we are exporting professionals of the highest calibre who can bring back home skills that can drive this economy. I am not afraid to say that it is demeaning for someone who went to the university to go to Qatar and be subjected to house calls, when that person studied architecture, law, or engineering. Let us not be apologetic. Let us not be embarrassed to call it what it is. Sen. Orwoba told us that there was no withdrawal, so nine months from today there will be something. I do not think that she will be happy if the baby she will raise and take to school to study engineering becomes a housemaid. Let us not be mediocre. Let us tell the Government not to treat Kenyans in a mediocre fashion. We have the capacity to be the Silicon Savannah. We have the capacity to export Information Technology (IT) and legal labour. The President should not be using taxpayers' money to go and look for guards and house girl’s jobs. We are not demeaning them. Let him create those opportunities here at home. I beg to support."
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