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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance to support this wonderful report that has been laid on the Table by the Committee on Energy, Roads and Transportation, chaired by Sen. Moi. We note with a lot of appreciation and mixed feelings that most of our Senate delegations have been going to the East. Why have they been going to the East? It is because the East has developed very fast compared to how Kenya has developed from the time we got our Independence in 1963. At the time we got our Independence, according to what we read, Kenya, South Korea and Malaysia were on the same footing. What is surprising us now is that those countries, which were on the same footing with Kenya in 1963, are now ahead of Kenya by far. The reason most Kenyans would want to go there is to see what miracle happened, so that all of a sudden that the countries overtook Kenya’s development record and trade. One of the reasons for this is that these countries, South Korea being one of them, have educated their people. The people are very patriotic and are selfless. They work very hard to see that their countries succeed. They have competition from the neighbouring countries also. South Korea, for example, has to compete very hard to beat North Korea which is a communist state. South Korea is a capitalist country. They must work very hard to be ahead of Cambodia and to measure up to the economic standards of Japan. That is what is making the Asian countries tick. When it comes to Kenya, you will realise that one, we are not very patriotic. Once some people find themselves in certain offices, we read in the papers, they rip off a lot of money from the public. I will not substantiate because we know they misuse money and our people are taken to court every day. We have cases of graft, but in Asia, these are things which happened in the past. They are very careful in the way they spend their money. I visited South Korea with my committee in 2004. They were asking us why Kenyans are keen in investing in South Korea. When we came home, we compared what we had seen and what was in Kenya and what we should do next. That is what South Eastern countries like Malaysia, South Korea and Japan are asking every day. One thing we must understand is that Koreans are very industrialized. Their focus is towards industrialization. Their education is towards industrialization and not the white-collar jobs kind of education. What we saw was that they do not have very big institutions like universities. Most of the colleges are middle level institutes of technology. The largest of them which we noted at that time and I believe it is still there is the Korean Institute of Science and Technology. It is the biggest Science and Technology Institute in Korea training engineers who are devolved to the lower levels to make sure that they start the cottage industries. They are the ones who also do land reclamation."
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