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    "content": "to live well, but why would you want to be richer than 40 per cent of the population of your country? That is obscenity. We must control national wealth for the country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, sometimes I feel embarrassment when we are told: In Kenya, so-and-so is the richest African, and when you look at the people who are being dubbed as the richest Africans, they have never even worked in an office as an office messenger, not even once. That is why in this country a new vocabulary has developed. When you go out there, people in Kenya hardly talk about earning money. They only talk about making money. Nobody wants to earn money; everybody wants to make money. This is how we have ruined our country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to encourage the Committee to bring legislation to modernize the port and make it more efficient to grow our GDP. Secondly, I want to encourage them to bring legislation to extend and expand the pipeline, so that we can get the tankers off the roads. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, lastly, the refinery in Mombasa has a long and bad story. I remember an Indian company called Essar was given the refinery to run. Now it is closed and the people who used to work there have to go home and nobody will look after them. We must make our choices. Now that we have oil, this Committee should also help legislate something similar to what Museveni has done in Uganda. He said that no Ugandan oil will be exported in its crude form. You must add value before you export. Export clean fuels, export lubricants and all manner of products up to bitumen. So we need a refinery. What we need is not the one we have in Changamwe. That one is out of date both in technology and everything. Now that we have oil, I personally do not agree with those who have been saying that a refinery should be put up in Isiolo because refineries must be put at the port where it is easier if you bought crude oil, to refine it and distribute clean products. So, it is important that we have our ideas and priorities right."
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