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    "id": 441665,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "yourselves can free your minds.” We think that the freedom we got was also mental but it is not. It beats all logic why such agreements are entered into and extended while Kenyans are not leaping from the benefits of our natural blessings from God. The strategic position is that this country is on the Equator. With respect to such satellite work, it is nothing we asked for. God gave it to us, but we do not reap any benefits. In any case, the people of Magarini remain as some of the poorest Kenyans we have in this country. It is disheartening. That is why I fully support this Report. I am sure you are aware that this country is grappling with a lot of economic issues. We have been trying to discuss the wage bill, saying that we have too many people in the Civil Service or the salaries are too high. I have always disagreed with that debate because the only reason we think we have too many people to pay is because we are collecting too little as a country because of corruption. A study was recently conducted by one of the big five accounting firms - probably PriceWaterHouseCoopers (PWC) or KPMG. That study states that Kenya, annually, has a potential of collecting Kshs.2 trillion a year. We get excited when KRA announces Kshs.600 million and because of that problem, we can never move beyond. We will just be as if we are on a trend mill sweating, but we will not move an inch as a country. It is time His Excellency the President of this country, Uhuru Kenyatta, puts his foot down and does not accept that contract to be renewed at all. For many Kenyans, despite having one of the best strategically placed Space Centre in the world, when you talk about cyber optic, all they know is cyber café. Cyber is internet. They do not know what we have. I am informed that we have launched two rockets from Magarini and yet, Kenya is still paying for the access to data. That Centre gives us, on top of the rockets, other information such as weather and we are paying them. So, when my friend, hon. Agostino Neto, who is a very active Member of KYPA says that Kenya has been too nice, I do not think we have been nice. We have been stupid! We have actually refused to use our mental faculties as a country. It is just that we have hon. Members like Dr. Otichilo, hon. (Eng) Gumbo and hon. (Eng) Rege, who have brought this issue. There are many other such useless contracts that we keep on renewing in this country, and we must put an end to it once and for all. We are struggling to give young Kenyans Kshs6 billion through the Uwezo Fund to help them economically. We are mired in deep poverty and we could be raising more than Kshs5 trillion in this country just by claiming what is rightfully ours as a country. It is totally absurd and wrong."
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