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    "id": 449047,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute in support of this Motion which has been ably moved by Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo. He is known to be knowledgeable about institutions of higher learning and as usual what happens is that professors think in the same line. The spirit of this Motion is to motivate most of us to think in the same line. What the professor is thinking is true in the sense that we cannot continue doing things before undertaking research on them. When you do research you tend to come up with new ideas, and as you perfect the new ideas, you move forward and rise to greater heights. That is what happens in the world. We should not stay in isolation but move in the direction that most countries are moving to internationally. This is happening every time and no wonder you hear of Nobel prize winners coming from either Norway, Sweden, Germany and other European countries because they know that without research, life cannot be the same. It is important that even in Kenya, what we are reaping after the 51 years of Independence is different from what we used to do before Independence. We had so many problems before but with good researchers and education levels, it has become possible for university lecturers to devote a lot of their time to do a lot of wonderful research even without Government funding. I am aware that quite a number of our university lecturers and professors at the University of Nairobi and even those lecturers who are lecturing elsewhere have come up with very classic ideas and research programmes. Some of them have even been put in newspapers and journals. For one to qualify to become a professor, he or she has to produce so many journals, books and other written literature. This is what research is all about. It therefore means that without money and commitment, most scholars in Kenya will not realize this dream and yet it is a dream that needs to be followed up. It is something that we should be proud of. We should identify ourselves with progress which is dynamic. We should be seen to be in a dynamic society. Madam Temporary Speaker, visiting other places outside Kenya, you will get to know that that is what is happening. Research has become the bread winner for many people who have to do a lot of research on very many issues. They even do research on infrastructure, education, climate, marine life, shipping behaviour, birds’ behaviour, the migration of animals et cetera . All these things are in this country. We should do more research in Kenya and relate it to what is written in other journals. These journals will be read outside this country and we will have very many people to see whether what is written in those countries is the true picture on the ground. This is what the Motion seeks us to understand. We can even generate a lot of money through what we call invisible exports. This is enough to generate enough money which we can plough back to our economy and prosper. This calls for a concerted effort; that Kenya being an agricultural country, we need to know more about what happens in the agricultural sector. We should be articulate in the way we do research on agricultural production. We should know that the Genetic Modified Organisms (GMOs) or foods are new to us and some people are not even aware of what happens because the information is not even made available through continuous The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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