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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyoka",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reality is that if the Member for Gwassi thinks he has the monopoly of knowledge to rear fish, he is clearly wrong! I am a fish farmer and I must declare my interest. There is this misnomer that fish belongs to certain communities but it is for all of us. I want to encourage all Kenyans to go seriously into fish farming. This should include pastoralists so that whenever it rains like now we should get fish everywhere. There is nothing fishy about what I am saying. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to take this opportunity to again very warmly congratulate the President. One of the things that will go down the annals of history as a tremendous achievement is the conceptualization of the Lamu South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) project at the Lamu Port, and the fact that we are even doing something to improve the Mombasa-Malaba route by way of enlarging the standard gauge so that transportation by railway line across the region becomes a lot more economical. Of even greater significance is this matter of LAPSSET. The moment this is achieved and the greatest achievement is in the conceptualization of this matter--- It behoves all of us, particularly the next leadership to be able to fully implement this project because, clearly, the amounts that are involved in this transport corridor are colossal. This is the kind of thing that will enable the Member for Turkana Central to transport oil from that region through the port of Lamu and be able to help the people of Southern Sudan and elsewhere; people of Ethiopia to be able now to have--- As I speak to you now, Ethiopia is landlocked after they lost the Port of Asmara to Eritrea. Therefore, the Ethiopians look up to Kenya to be able to provide them with that access to the sea. Therefore, this is tremendous and I really have no words to thank His Excellency the President. On agriculture, there is need to move from rain-fed agriculture to irrigation which is already taking root. Therefore, we cannot continue to rely all the time on rain. When the rains come, like last night hon. Members were getting home at midnight. This is because the rains came heavily. I was telling the hon. Member for Naivasha to even think in terms of changing the name of that wonderful national park because when you see flash floods carrying away young people at the prime of age and they suddenly perish, it pains all of us as a nation. Maybe it is time we changed the name of this national park from Hells Gate National Park to Glorious Park. This is because if you internalize hell you begin to live in hell while you are on earth. I want to really thank all of us because we now have to implement the Constitution. This is why later on I have asked the hon. Member, my learned friend, the Minister for Lands, to be able to later in the afternoon move as we discuss the Land Bills, the possibility of an extension so that we can deal with all the business that we know is before this House. In fact, right now we have so much business that I want to suggest that whenever a request is made for extension of time, that we will be generous as a House to grant the same so that the country again can actually stand guided by what this House does because Kenyans now appreciate that the Tenth Parliament is up to the mark when it comes to the full implementation of the Constitution. So, those deadlines that must be met like the 28th August deadline are important matters that we must deal with. So, I want to take this opportunity to commend this Speech before the House. I have just given you one or two highlights as I saw them. But the Speech was so rich in its originality and presentation that it actually has given a new sense of direction to the country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move."
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