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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kivuti",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Siakago",
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        "legal_name": "Lenny Maxwell Kivuti",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you very much 400 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 25, 2008 for having seen me. I have been here for quite sometime, trying to catch your eye. My name is Lenny Kivuti, Member of Parliament for Siakago. While supporting the adjournment, I would like to make a few comments, which would have been part of what I would have said earlier on. While thanking the people of Siakago for having elected me in my first attempt, I would like to take this opportunity to say that it gives me a lot to pleasure to be able to re-live some of the dreams that I have always had. Part of that dream is how to make Kenya and Africa get to the First World. Without having to go into detail, because I do not have ten minutes, I may wish to thank the President and Mr. Raila for making the environment in Kenya conducive for us to work towards implementing what we promised our electorate. The biggest problem we have in Kenya is compounded by poverty. If we can tackle poverty, we will end up finding a solution towards making Kenya become a First World country. On how to tackle poverty, I am looking at two issues. The first issue is what I would call settlement. Settlement can generally be looked at as solving the land problem. To solve the land problem is not an easy thing. I happen to come from a domain that deals with land. If we are going to solve the land problem, over and above changing the policy, we must be in a position to look at the land management strategies which, in my opinion, must include some electronic way of storing our land information data. I am thinking about issues like making a land use master plan which is digital and stored in a Geographic Information System (GIS) and things like that. If we reached there, we would be talking about security of the documentation that we put about land. Secondly, if we are going to think about eradicating poverty, one of the issues which comes with infrastructure and real development is developing the knowledge base. The world economy today is based on the development of the knowledge economy. That means developing our knowledge. There is so much knowledge in this country and even in the diaspora. If we tapped into it, Kenya would be flourishing in less than three years. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, without having to talk too much about what can be done in Kenya--- I do hope there will be another chance in the future that one, maybe, would bring out more issues. I have in mind the occasion when we have ten minutes to speak. I beg to support."
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