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    "id": 440563,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the state of our country is measured by the state of the counties. When the counties look good, the country looks good. In our extensive travels across the country in almost 20 counties in what was then the Committee of Education, Information and Technology – and we intend to visit all the 47 counties – the experience that we gained out there reminds us very strongly that we are as strong as the weakest part. A rope is as strong as the weakest part of the rope. It was very clear to us, as we travelled around the country, that Nairobi, where we sit as the capital city of our nation, is actually an island. It is an island because nowhere in Kenya do you go – maybe except Mombasa – where you see the kind of economic activities, reflection in infrastructure and so on, and so forth, as you see in Nairobi. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Committee stayed in Lamu County – and I notice that the Senator for Lamu is here with us – but we actually stayed very far from the main Lamu hotels because there are very few hotels in Lamu, making them very expensive and we could not afford them as a Committee. So, we were using a boat to travel for 30 minutes from where the Governor sits to go to the hotel where we were staying, and there was no hotel anywhere near where we were staying. The hotel we were staying is made up of makuti – I do not know whether you remember the name of the hotel – but we stayed in a makuti hotel. The floor was sand and there was no single window. When we were travelling around there, we saw that it is a beautiful place and we wished we could get investors to come and exploit this beauty so that Kenyans can enjoy themselves and also invite visitors to do so. But, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, clearly, the other issue is that of education in all those areas, let alone the issue of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), because ICT was a strange phenomenon in most of the places. The issue we noticed was that there were very low standards of education in those areas. For me, I posited that there were two reasons for this; number one, clearly we have not invested sufficient funds in education in the coast; we simply have not!"
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