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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "opportunity like no other county in Kenya to grow your own-source revenue because of the God-sent gift of Lake Victoria. I will be appealing to the Senate to allow the Senators of these counties for a trip to either Finland, Estonia, Sweden or Norway. They will see how they play with their lakes. When I was last in Estonia many years ago, one of the things you cannot afford to leave is that because you have a Schengen visa, they allow you to keep on shifting between Estonia, Finland and Norway without any disturbance. You pay a small fee for the cruise ships and those ships have capacities of 400 to 800 people. They are forever full with the little money they make there. They have perfected the blue economy there in terms of transport. Madam Temporary Speaker, I believe and pray that you, leaders from those counties, will take advantage of Lake Victoria. We would like to see cruise ships from Kisumu to Homa Bay, to Kendu Bay, to Sio Port, to Port Victoria, to Entebbe, to Bukavu and to Mwanza. You will make billions of shillings out of own-source revenue. That is the route to go. Do not fight for the little Kshs2 billion that this Senate wants to give. I also agree with the Senator for Homa Bay when he said that we should start fellowships amongst counties. We can start a fellowship with Vihiga, Taita Taveta, Homa Bay, Kakamega and Marsabit counties; where we have serious mineral resources. We will demand that we want affirmative action. The amount of gold in Kakamega is so serious that the President in his wisdom and Government have decided that for all the gold that will be mined in Kakamega, in all the gold mining counties of Kenya and in all the gold mining countries of East Africa, the refinery will be built at Muritambisa in Ikolomani and that construction is ongoing. Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to speak louder to this because, the old leadership wants to confine us in small talk like the talk of Kshs405 billion when we should be talking about bigger resources we can share as a Republic. On the issue of sharing, if they make us to think small, they will disrupt our thinking big. Why not sit our governors or take over as governors and think big, the way in 1965, Singapore thought big? They had a small economy, but because of thinking big, they made simple decisions of governance. Like in human resource, the President said; we are not going to hire you for any other reason, but we will hire you because of competence. Kenya today is like many other failing African countries. We shortchange professionals so as to hire relatives or friends. The end result is that our professionals who are denied promotions become disenfranchised and they do not perform."
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