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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important Motion and the Report by the Committee on Energy, Roads and Transportation. I first want to take time to congratulate them because they have done a good job. They should continue doing the same in future. The Committee has done this Report, it has been tabled and we are now discussing it for adoption. We want other committees to do the same so that we are informed of what is happening. I hope that this will be an eye opener to many other Standing Committees which are yet to present such reports in the Senate. I am interested in knowing why some parts of the world are richer than others. I happen to have been a teacher and I know what that means. In Germany, the richest industrial region is called Ruhr Region. This area is rich due to availability of coal. There is also the presence of iron ore in quite large deposits from Lorraine in France transported by a very able river called Creuse. Getting to Japan, the richest industrial region is in Tokyo around Kyoto, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. That is the richest in the world. The reason is not because of coal and not because of any other thing but because of skilled manpower which is yet to be tapped in Kenya. In America, the same has happened in the Pennsylvania region called the Midwest. The Midwest is the second richest after Arch of Lark and the main reason is coal and water power in the facility. We have many other examples. However, for the purpose of Kenya, we have quite a number of minerals that have been discovered. Others are in the process of being discovered as we look for more to export. What is amazing is that as much as we have countries that are rich, there are reasons that make them rich. One of the reasons is that they have utilized their main factors of production to the full. These are land, people for their skilled labour, capital, fuel and energy. We are now discussing energy as it is stipulated very well in the Report by the Committee. With energy and Kenyans’ presence, you will find that this is available in various places that are recorded here. You will realize that these have not been tapped so that we use the fuel for the purpose of industrial location and relocation. That means that we cannot use the fuel as a factor. The reason is that the cost of production has been very high. So, you will find that we do not have very many sources of energy that have been exploited just because of the high costs. There is also lack of infrastructure. It is very difficult to find some of these areas. We need to think about infrastructure as we support this Motion. We need to think about manpower. We have the only celebrated engineer in Kenya, Eng. Simiyu. This is just like in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) where when they talk about fuel production, you find one George Best there. The rest of the skilled manpower is from America. I am quoting"
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