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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "schools since Independence. The majority of the elites you see from my region have had to make it academically by going to national schools outside the region. It is this marginalisation that makes some of us get confused and angry with the Government. This must stop. Even if they do not want to stop it because of the politics they want to pursue, let me teach them a bit of economics, which I do not understand. Economics says Kenya's number one trading partner is Uganda. When you add the trade we do with Rwanda, Bujumbura, Eastern Congo and South Sudan, the goods and services on that road are the engine of Kenya’s economy as far as import and export as a revenue stream. If we must grow Kenya’s economy, in this Government and the Government to come thereafter, there are two minimums we must do and that minimum is not mine. It was envisioned in 2030 by the late President Mwai Kibaki. The plan was to dual the road from Mombasa Port all the way to the border. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for your information, just as a reminder, you were our Minister in the East African Community (EAC). You know the blueprint of the road network in the EAC, which says that the dualling would not end at Malaba. The community would help extend the dualling all the way to Kampala, Kigali, Goma and Bujumbura. That would open the economy under limb one. Then limb two would be the LAPSSET projects; Lamu Seaport. Then we do the roads all the way to Ethiopia and all the way to South Sudan. If we open these arteries, we will grow the economy of Kenya. We will not have to export our youth to go and look for jobs in Dubai and other funny places. The people in those areas have no idea how difficult it is for you to take care of your pregnant wife until she gives birth, then you educate that child. They do not know that. We do it for them and then give them our professionals. We need to create these jobs here at home. How do you do it? We have to open the economy and think proactively. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have had to emphasise this point. I appeal to colleagues that we make the National Treasury independent. That way, Equalisation Funds and other decentralised funds will follow. Finally, I want to use this opportunity to congratulate Cabinet Secretary, Hon. John Mbadi. I had a two-hour meeting with him. He seems to know what he is doing. We only need to tweak him a little. He understands what we are doing, but he is under political pressure whereby he is forced to then tweak some projects to Nyanza. Once you correct that, Hon. Mbadi is a good feat for that Ministry. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I support."
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