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    "content": "I stand here to support this Motion not only because it comes from my Chairman but because I realise the importance of having internet connectivity in our Senate, governors’ offices and all over the country. We have been moving around the counties as a Committee and realised that fibre optic connection goes only to the county commissioners’ offices and not to the governors’ offices. This was a matter of concern. I know that many of you have not realized that this Chamber is connected to a wireless network. If our Nairobi Governor’s Office was connected to this network, then we would communicate directly with him and with the other county commissioners. This can also cut down the time we use in summoning Cabinet Secretaries to our meetings. I believe that the issue of summoning Cabinet Secretaries is quite archaic since we can use digital methods of communicating with these people. We can also use this as a tool for sourcing information. That is another importance of the fibre optic connection. The other importance is economic growth and development of this country. With this connection, we can carry out research and communicate better, both externally and internally. This will help our counties, communities and the people around us. Without information, we cannot do much in terms of what we have set our minds to do. With regard to business opportunities, Senators like Mutahi Kagwe will train and understand more about the pros and cons of the fibre optic cable and what we need to know. This can only happen if we have the connection widespread in all our counties. We heard very good news from a representative of the Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology (ICT). He told us that they still have about 60,000 kilometres to connect in the country. I beg to support by saying that we need to be connected since this is the digital era. We need to step away from the era where people got to know about internet and laptops when they were going to the university. Let us not take back our children and our generation to where we are coming from. Let us move forward and not backward."
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