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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I support this Report which is moving in the sense that it is one of the few reports that have been tabled here. I congratulate the team, headed by the Chairman, Sen. Mutahi Kagwe. I was also a Member of the Committee. It important to point out that Sen. Kagwe now is the Chairman of the Committee on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). We have since split and I am now the Chairman of the Committee on Education. So, take note, as you contribute, that he is no longer the Chairman of the Committee on Education. That is very important. The Senate split the Committee into two after it realized that education is a very wide sector. It was encompasses very many components of running. Therefore, I am happy to be associated with this Committee which is doing very well in line with the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is important to note that this Committee has fulfilled its obligations in the Constitution, in the sense that it has been able to visit several counties. We have visited 20 out of 47 counties. I am sure in that in the next one year, starting this Financial Year, we are likely to cover all the 47 counties. That indicates that the Committee is moving and it will get to realize the truth about what is already enshrined in the Constitution regarding our county governments. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is a pity that we have to talk about the coastal region, whereas we know that the first explorers came to East Africa following that route. In 1498, there was Vasco da Gama who had time even to go up to Malindi where he got the first African to take him through the rest of the journey to India. He noted that there was an African who could manage the compass from Malindi up to India, and it happened. When Vasco da Gama---"
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