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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "content": "not regard them as human beings and it is very saddening. It is painful. On the attitude, to get into San Marco Applications Centre, the Committee of the House mandated constitutionally to provide oversight on behalf of the people of Kenya, had literally to plead. Even when we went in, the evasiveness of the managers and the attitude towards hon. Members was unacceptable. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to ask - and gain follow from where the Leader of Majority has left - how could successive Governments of Kenya from our founding Father, the man we highly respect, Jomo Kenyatta to Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki have allowed that to happen? It is a thorough indictment of the successive Governments before that of Uhuru Kenyatta. The San Marco Space Application Centre is in Magarini Constituency where hon. Kombe represents. You ask yourself, for example, why it has taken over 50 years for them to do that short stretch of road connecting Ngomeni from the main Malindi-Lamu Road. You ask yourself why the Government of Kenya has not insisted on getting a share of the billions of shillings that, that Centre generates from third party contracts. You can go a step further and ask yourself why our successive Governments did not find it necessary to use the massive amounts of data that is generated from third party contracts for our own technological advancement. These are questions that we kept on asking when we went to San Marco. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is a known fact that, that Centre generates billions of shillings. We spent the whole day there asking how much does the Centre generates. In fact, the impression the Italians running the Centre were trying to give us was that the Centre was a non-profit Centre. It is laughable! It is ridiculous and unacceptable. This Centre, for the information of hon. Members and those who may not know, has been used to launch rockets from the Kenyan landscape."
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