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    "id": 400853,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/400853/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, my colleague, the Senator for Kirinyaga needs to know that an abbreviation for anything that you may want can actually collapse into thousands of meanings. I want to inform him that in the context that I am talking about, NATO is “No Action Talk Only.” Madam Temporary Speaker, the moment that we will sit down as a nation, build our people and choose the right direction, we will be able to deliver. Even when we talk about farming, what are we doing? Our economy heavily depends on rain-fed agriculture, but we have not come up with new technologies. If you go to some of our supermarkets, you will get powder milk which comes from Egypt and New Zealand. They come through the Port of Mombasa and the Kenya Bureau of Standards knows about this. But there is no dry milk that is produced in Kenya, yet we are consumers of the same. We are capable of producing dry milk if we could invest in the same. Madam Temporary Speaker, we need as many of these reports as possible, but we also need to know where our problem lies. Our problem lies in our ability to choose and listen to the leaders. The Senators were talking about having fora in their counties, where the leadership of the entire county will choose to move in a particular direction, so that it is not only one person running the show. We need to face one direction and decide. Madam Temporary Speaker, two years ago, we had the privilege of going to Singapore as a high-power delegation led by the then Prime Minister. It was a big delegation. When we reached the airport, they said: “The Kenyan delegation, as usual.” I was with my Minister then, Sen. Obure, and when we asked what the problem was, we were told: “There is even another delegation of Kenyans roaming around Singapore now.” Now they have banned Kenyans from visiting Singapore, unless you pay. That is why they gave us somebody who was attached here in Kenya and was working under the former Office of the Prime Minister, to advise Kenyans. I do not know whether or not the fellow is still around, because nothing has moved. I have not heard about the National Social Council since the Jubilee Government took over. Do they still exist? Those are the people who were supposed to propel us in this direction. So, as we go listening and benchmarking, we need to go to our archives and remove all the documents that we have, and move on from there. We can start small but move to implement them. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Motion. 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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