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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kituyi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade and Industry",
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        "legal_name": "Mukhisa Kituyi",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for according me this opportunity to make my contribution to this matter, and also to make a few personal statements at the start of this Session of Parliament. When this Parliament started, I was optimistic that we had an opportunity to right what has been wrong in setting the national agenda as the political class in defining what we want our country to do, and in responding to opportunities that have been going begging without our contribution as leaders. I hope, and I still have that residual hope, that this National Assembly will have a sense of purpose in addressing the anxieties that are growing in Southern Sudan. After the contribution which led to their political liberation, they are looking to our contribution to economic growth, that we will walk down the road with them in gaining the contracts that are emerging; and that, at least, half of the contractors who will be allowed in Juba and Rumbek will not just becoming through Nairobi, but will be coming out of Nairobi. That is not happening. I thought I will engage hon. Members of the National Assembly in saying, how can Kenya play a more purposeful role in Sudan? How do we explain that Kenyan Africans are down the line, perhaps, number 10, among the people who are going to Southern Sudan with clear innovative ideas? April 4, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 303 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I had hoped that this House will start prosecuting the agenda of how do we empower younger Kenyan entrepreneurs not only to use opportunities in the region, but to start growing with the opportunities that are emerging with the economic recovery of this country. It pains me to mention this because this agenda is not exciting any more. The agenda of poverty is not exciting anybody. The agenda of how we are losing out to South Africans and Indians in Southern Sudan is not exciting anybody because we cannot settle scores politically on that agenda. We also cannot show that the Government has been barred on that agenda."
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