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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "amounts of fish. So, look at it this way: Kenya has resources, but the people benefitting from the resources are not Kenyans themselves. Rather, it is a few individuals and those interesting multi-nationals. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will not speak to the engineering content because my two learned brothers, hon. Eng Gumbo and hon. Eng. Rege, spoke about cyber orbital satellite issues; things I have no understanding of. I will only speak about the legal aspects. The third recommendation is paramount. It is of prime importance to anybody who is moving forward with the San Marco agreement. The fact is that any future agreements with or about San Marco ought to be sanctioned by this Parliament. This cannot be gainsaid because there is a constitutional provision. Anybody who wants to do things in the background should know that constitutional provisions--- They owe it to the Kenyan Constitution that those agreements must be sanctioned through Parliament. That is one of the greatest tenets of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. It makes Parliament an oversight body and as the one which represents the people’s sovereignty. It is the big organ that makes decisions on behalf of the people of Kenya. If, at all, the agreements are sanctioned by Parliament, then you can be sure that we shall ensure that Kenyans will benefit from what they deserve. I would like to have a juxtaposition of recommendation number 12. The Italian Government gives grants to Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in the manner of loans. They are raking in billions of shillings and yet, they are giving us loans. It is supposed to be our right in terms of sharing some of the resources. So, that is the paradox: You take our money, and then give it back to us in form of loans, which poor Kenyans are repaying at very exorbitant interests. This is just wrong! It is illegal! I think it goes against those very tenets of international brotherhood. On the other recommendation, I would like to speak on the establishment of a cyber space agency. If it is true that, for example, Kenya is exporting all this satellite information but is not benefiting and many Kenyans are trained and qualified, then we may end up, for example, training Kenyans in the wrong things. Why should we be training Kenyans on paleontology and other kinds of things that they never get jobs for, whereas we can actually benefit from a space agency? I learnt from my friend hon. (Eng.) Rege that, in cyber space and satellite innovation, that is where the future is moving towards. So, we have the resource in Kenya. We ought to be training our youth and the young people on cyber issues. We are concentrating them with general sciences and social sciences which, really, do not have marveling jobs, whereas for example, in just one single centre in Malindi, billions of shillings are being made. I know it is a Report that generates a lot of interest; I shall just highlight two or more things from these particular recommendations. Some of these recommendations are fairly lean. Look at Recommendation No.11, which says that the Government should ensure that qualified Kenyans are competitively recruited and the management of the Centre should ensure that they adhere to the Kenya labour laws, with regard to employee matters. If it is our right and we are supposed to own the Space Centre, we should not then be talking like we are begging someone. It is supposed to be our right in terms of what we do with the Centre. The conditions of young or old Kenyans employed there should be those that are in line with Kenyan laws and nothing to do with Italian laws. 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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