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    "id": 1519443,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Kenyatta National Teaching and Referral Hospital at some point was attracting medical tourists from the region. Those are the quiet ways of strengthening yourself on the continental stage. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not about how loud we are on Twitter . There is this thing called KOT, Kenyans on Twitter or Kenyans online. You only project strength through certain attributes, not noise making and not attacking other people online. We need to go back to our transport sector. Part of our comparative advantage as a country is our location. It is geography that allows us to have a port almost midway from North to Southern Africa. The Port of Mombasa is a gift from God and our location are a gift from God. We must modernize the port. I am willing to encourage this Government that if we cannot get civil servants and bureaucrats who can modernize that port, then we would rather seek a strategic partner. Of course, a strategic partner procured in a transparent and open manner. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have gone to Dubai with the Senate Liaison Committee. We went to D.P. World and they told us the kind of operations they are running all over the world. They are running ports in Manchester, China, the U.S. while we want to turn our ports into theatres for appointment of tribal and political loyalists. We are not going to make it. Kenya Airways has been the pride of Africa, but of late, it has become the shame of Kenya. Kenya Airways is another form of expression of strength on the continental stage. Every time we travel, even Members in this House would prefer to fly Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates or Qatar Airways and not Kenya Airways. These are the fundamentals we must come back to. The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) that we built terminated nowhere, in some field in Naivasha. How can you have an SGR that terminates in some place in Suswa and yet there is no last mile for connectivity? We must put money, even if it means taking a loan. I will support a loan request for extension of the SGR from Suswa to go all the way to Kisumu, Malaba; all the way to Uganda. That is how we can be relevant to the people of Uganda. Not by shouting, but providing connectivity to them. As I conclude, I urge the relevant committee that our foreign policy must be examined by this House. I urge the people of Kenya that when a Kenyan is out there on the international stage, we have an obligation to cheer them on. Otherwise, we are going to have a situation where, one day, Faith Kipyegon is breaking a world record and half of Kenya is cheering, while another half is not because she comes from the same village as the President. That is where we are heading to. You will have an untidy situation where Harambee Stars is playing and scoring goals; half of Kenya is cheering and the other half is not cheering because the team has Ogola, Otieno, Onyango, Wafula and Wekesa. We cannot build a country that is that petty. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I urge that this conversation in this House will be different from the conversation we had yesterday in the other House and it will be different from the conversation we have had elsewhere."
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