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"content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. As I reply to the Motion, it is important that Kenyans travel. What I have witnessed in this House is that people are ignorant of the facts; they do not seem to understand what the Motion is all about because they have been moving around here in Kenya, and I hope that you encourage them to be exposed. They need to go to Venezuela and see how the cable cars have eased the economy in that country; they need to go to Canada and see how the Rocky Mountains have really contributed to the economy of the country in provinces such as Alberta, which have become richer than even Kenya, yet they are provinces. That has been made possible because of the Rocky Mountains and the use of cable cars. It is also important for them to visit Cape Town, South Africa, and see that in Cape Town alone, the cable cars have contributed more than half of the scenery in South Africa only because cable cars transport tourists from the Cape Town to the top of the Table Mountains. As I talk like that, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are some people here who do not even know what Table Mountains are. So, “to go is to see;” that is what we say in our language. When you visit such places, you come back enriched. This is one of the reasons why we tell people to move to Singapore; and when they go there, they are amazed to see the kind of infrastructure which is in place there. In a town called Kuala Lumpur, which is the capital city of Malaysia, they have designed two two tallest buildings in the country called the Twin Towers. As a result of that, the country earns a lot of money from tourists who come just to view the Twin Towers alone. Malaysia is said to be one of the richest tourist destinations in the world. Cambodia was ravaged by internal strife. There were wars between Cambodia, Vietnam and America, but the construction of the cable cars, which are now the longest cable cars in the world, has revamped the economy of Cambodia a hundred times. So, this is something that we need to address ourselves to. As I said when I was moving the Motion, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I fear that if this project is not taken up and embraced in the right time by the right people in the country, countries like Rwanda and Uganda are going to use this facility to exploit the tourist potential in the Ruwenzori Mountains. When they do that, we will be seeing tourists bypassing Nairobi, going all the way to Ruwenzori Mountains, and from there, they will, of course, contribute a lot of money in the name of foreign exchange, and 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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