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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Kennedy Mong'are Okong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to also add a few remarks in support of this Motion as tabled by the Vice Chair of the Committee. The Report indicates that we are coming of age in line with the Vision 2030, if the new thinking can be that we do not shelve very good documents as in the past. Since Independence, most well thought and researched documents like this one are in the shelves and some have been forgotten. If in the new order, in the new political dispensation, we can implement such findings, we will be in order and catch up with the Vision 2030. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, having looked at the Report, I have a few reservations. For instance, the environmental impact assessment is ongoing. I would recommend that the Committee makes a follow up on this issue and the social relations with the people in these areas. Further, I also urge the relevant committees, especially the Committee on Education, Information and Communication, to sell this idea to our universities. We are told that we have around 50 expert professionals in this career who are working. We have seen our universities embark on very expansionist policies and curricula. I urge the relevant committees to also pass this to the Government of the day, so that our universities, especially those that are established, like the University of Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and Kenyatta University, expand and nurture our local talents in this field, so that we can have enough manpower as and when it is required. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, I also urge the Sarah Serem Commission, which is working very hard and talking about salaries, wage bills, et cetera, to look at some of these professionals. We need these professionals to be well paid so that they can be attracted to serve the nation. You will find that some of our professors in different fields earn peanuts. This is so sad. But with the new order and the Senate having taken its mandate, I believe that we will engage the relevant authorities and capture some of these talents to work for our country. I beg to support."
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