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    "id": 390983,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Kuti",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Kuti",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, devolution is more effective when our governors, executive committee and members of the county assemblies are aware and are connected with the rest of the counties, the national government and even with the world. I agree with Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o when he said that Senators, Governors and Members of the County Assembly and even Members of Parliament need to have the basic ICT knowledge as a requirement because the world is heading there. You will be illiterate to be using paper and pen. You will be like our fathers who could not read letters. We are now going to the third phase in terms of illiteracy. There was that time when we used to read letters for our fathers. Now we will be like our fathers where issues will be explained to us. Even here, I am sure we have Senators who are in that stage and it is a fact. I am just half-baked myself in terms of these issues. Therefore, it is very critical that we focus on new learning where every leader must be ICT compliant, so that he is able to utilise this facility to enhance his development agenda. That is why it is important that the fibre optic reaches those far flung districts to enable the policy makers utilize it. I fully support this because this is where the world is. We are at that platform. If we are not there, then we will be lower than that platform. Therefore, this is something that requires a marshal plan so that we purposefully focus on making our country receive this infrastructure and also enable the population to utilize it. It is one thing to have fibre optic connectivity to every corner of this country, but it is also another thing to enable the population to utilize it and maximize the utilisation and get the maximum benefit out of it. These two must go hand in hand so that we do not have something that we cannot use. For example, some time ago, roads were The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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