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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "I am sorry, Madam Temporary Speaker. I had not noticed that there was change of Chair. In America, I read somewhere that they have now adopted a new terminology where there is a lady committee chair in the Senate. They are now calling them committee chairwoman and not committee chairperson. So, we hope you will be looking at those other experiences to redefine our terminologies. Coming back to our subject, I want to commend our Committee on Energy and Communications for its very good and great work and encourage them to sponsor more trips abroad because they say that unless you eat another mother’s food, you always think that your mother is the best cook. So, I would like to encourage the membership of this Committee to visit other countries especially the Latin American countries like Brazil which have come up very well. Personally, I have been to Iran and despite all the stories we hear about Iran, it is a very well organized and developed country. Although I did not get to the nuclear stations, I found that whereas Kenya produces only 1,500 megawatts of electricity, Iran was producing 66,000 megawatts of electricity and they were adding another 5,000 megawatts when I was there. So, it is a country which is very well developed. When the Committee goes to those countries, we should not just focus ourselves on the technical aspects of production of nuclear power. I think it is also good to look at the broader context of leadership which permits such development to take place. Madam Temporary Speaker, although we have Vision 2030 in this country, it is not going to be achieved until we have Leadership 2030. We need a very bold and courageous leadership for you to introduce nuclear power because there will be a lot of people making noise. If the leadership is focused and firm, that is when the country can move forward. The people who transformed South Korea were military generals who were there between 1960 and 1980. They were people who had a vision and the strength to pull the vision through. The person who has transformed Singapore is one man called 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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