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    "content": "along Oxford Street alone in London. If you go to Spain, we are talking of another 37 million people visiting as tourists, yet our biggest ambition here is three million people. But if we open up our minds, then we can have many more tourists. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I can imagine a situation where tourism becomes by far the largest foreign exchange earner in Kenya; way beyond what it currently is. At that point, if we moved from three million to five million tourists, through the kind of attractions that Sen. Karaba has proposed here, the economy of Kenya would be completely transformed. You can imagine that if you have five million tourists, they would consume 10 million eggs, 10 million sausages and 10 million of other things that we may think of. If you ask Kenyans to supply 10 million eggs, that is a lot of farming that would be done by Kenyans. Therefore, we are talking about economic transformation. So, as we think about cable cars, let us be clear about what we are talking about. We are talking about a means of transport that can get us to the terrain that other means of transport would be difficult. For example, if you are talking about the Rift Valley or if you are crossing the Menengai Crater, it is very difficult to use any other means. Let us also not complicate this thing so that it looks like it is impossible. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in your other life when you were an ambassador to Belgium, you saw these things all over the place. A cable car is simply a car that is pulled by a pulley. It is simply a pulley. It is the same as drawing water from the well except that it is across. It looks very complicated but it is very simple. All we need is a policy framework that can assist us in developing these things. We must also encourage the county governments to think along the same lines. When we do the policy, let us not make it a national government activity only. Let us encourage the county governments and let us infuse them by supporting them financially from the national Government so that county governments can make plans for them. In Nyeri, for example, we would like to make plans to build cable car network to Mt. Kenya; we would like to build a mountain tramway for Aberdare Mountains so that people can see one of the most beautiful scenes in the world called the moose in the Aberdare Mountains. Many Kenyans have never even heard of them yet it is the most beautiful scenery anywhere on earth. So, what we are saying here is that in addition to cable cars, let us think about trams, let us think urban transportation via urban trains and we should also think about balloons. We have a few in the Mara but we should encourage people to look at different ways of doing things. Cable cars can take us through Mt. Kenya to the Mau Mau caves that still exist. Except for a few of us who have been there having been taken there by the administration police, they are numerous and beautiful but nobody knows that the freedom of this nation was born in the mountains and we have never visited there. We have seen people travelling all the way from the United States of America (USA) to come to Ghana to see the caves through which African slaves were transported. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us support this Motion and in doing so, let us also ask our people to be clear minded and to be more dynamic. I specifically would like to address the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA). NEMA must also The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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