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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Report. As I contribute to this Report, I want to follow from where my good friend, the Leader of the Majority Party has left; to beseech our colleagues that we should adopt this Report. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I start to contribute to this Report, if I was asked to write a story on San Marco Applications Centre from 1962 to date, the short title would be: “Selling Wealth to Buy Poverty.” I say this because I was privileged to be in the last Parliament. I was privileged, indeed. It was the highlight of my sitting in the Tenth Parliament to go to Ngomeni and for that, I want to thank most sincerely the Speaker of the Tenth Parliament, hon. Kenneth Marende for leading from the front, hon. Wilber Otichilo for bringing the matter to the House and, of course, the current Speaker for bringing back this Report. Why do I say that San Marco Applications Centre is a story about selling wealth to buy poverty? When you go to San Marco Applications Centre, what strikes you most is the neighbouring village called Ngomeni, in hon. Harrison Kombe’s Constituency. What strikes you most when you visit San Marco Applications Centre is the level of poverty of the people around that station. It is dehumanizing, degrading and completely unacceptable! The San Marco Applications Centre is a study of how foreign governments and entities manipulate our own vulnerabilities for their purposes at the expense of the welfare our people. This is unacceptable! It is completely abominable and unacceptable that we should allow foreign governments to come to Kenya to manipulate our resources, when our people live in that level of poverty. It is unacceptable. Another thing that strikes me - and the hon. Leader of Majority Party has spoken about it - is the attitude of the managers of the Centre towards the local people. They do The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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