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    "id": 1532596,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1532596/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Yatta, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Basil",
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    "content": "Our Supplementary Budget is also worrying because we have put so little into research, innovation, and technology. In countries like China, Japan, and Israel, most of their money goes to innovation, research, and technology, but here we are doing the opposite. How will we ever rescue ourselves from being dependent on aid? We borrow money when we should engineer these resources in sectors that will rehabilitate and revitalise our economy and make Kenya not even a middle-income but probably an upper-middle-income country. We must get our priorities right. I have to underscore that statement. Like any other patriot sitting in this august House, we should always get our priorities right and not think of now but of generations to come. Remember, our forefathers fought to see a better country, yet even today, we are still grappling with the same issues of disease, poverty, and illiteracy 61 years after Independence. If we want to get out of this, we must think as patriots. Let us not think based on our party affiliations or thinking of today, but we plan for generations to come. In a nutshell, it is important to invest more in electricity, that is number one, so that all our areas are be connected. That will increase revenue for the country because when one is connected to electricity, one starts to pay bills and generate money for the energy sector for that investment. We need to invest more in the water sector to support irrigation agriculture, produce more for our country, and export. We should also invest in proper roads so that we can connect our areas and ensure goods and services are properly and timely distributed or taken where they are required. Lastly, we must invest more in the health sector because a sick nation completely compromises all developmental gains. With those few remarks, I submit."
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