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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "messages I receive about the potential of my own County of Narok when it comes to minerals are overwhelming. I receive text messages about the potentials of where my good friend, the Vice Chair of the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC), comes from. The potential of Taita-Taveta and Kwale in terms of the mining sector is enough to help us leapfrog. There is this current debate where America is talking about America first and Germany is talking about Germany first. They are saying that if you are a foreigner, you should ship off and go back to your country. It is time we took that unfortunate policy direction to make it better for us. Always take something negative and make something positive out of the outcome. If we get these African brains who are economic refugees in America or Germany come back and commit themselves in our continent, we can make a lot of progress. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a great opportunity for us to have discussions on how we are going to end poverty on the African Continent. It is going to end poverty in this African continent. Not only to talk to talk about the war in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is only the wearer of the shoe who knows where it hurts the most. When people criticize the President of Rwanda for taking a particular position when it comes the conflict in the DRC, they are not the ones who are going to receive all those refugees that are going to run into that small country. It is only him who knows the position. When my colleagues criticize the current President of this Republic that he should have taken a different position that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) wanted, yet his Excellency President Ruto is the Chair of the East African Community, what do they expect him to do? To go there and deviate from the role that the EAC wants? Do they want him to go and give his vision? I think it is important for all of us to understand the dynamics in place, what is in our interest. If our neighbours are stable, it helps this country. If Rwanda is stable, Kenya is assisted. If Tanzania is stable, we are able to trade with them. When we say that SADC want a particular position, do we even go back and ask ourselves what the positions is and what is fueling it? One needs to take some time and try to understand the dynamics. The DRC has a lot of minerals. South Africa also has a lot of minerals. Anyone who would want to have a position contrary to other superpowers want would want to align themselves in a position whereby they say, “we are developing these minerals for ourselves, so let us put our interests together. If we just jump in and declare the way to go, we might end up being isolated.” What Rt. Hon. Raila did is something for which I will always remember him as someone who has put the interests of not only Kenya but African Continent first before his own personal interest. Some of us in some of our personal moments, contemplate and say that since the position of the AU Chair is to on policy, economy, politics as well as social affairs, why do we not split the Commission into two and then converge? Why do we not let the Anglophone countries have one commissioner while Fracophone counties have another so that we then converge?"
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