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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the opportunity to also speak to this Bill whose intention is to make Kenya a better place to live in. Energy is a resource which, if well managed, will address the concerns of Kenyans and the financial gaps that we all have in our budgeting system. We know resources are limited. Any extra resource that any country gets is welcome. Kenya is one such lucky country that has found gas and oil. It is one of those things that we have taken for granted for a long time. We never get to appreciate its impact and we never get to appreciate some parts of Kenya. This brings to mind what has been happening for a long time. What the Bible tells us that the rejected stone will turn out to be the corner stone, is true. A county like Turkana, which for lack of a better word, has been ignored for a long time in terms of development, is now turning out to be the saviour of the economy of Kenya. That is why we are encouraging the Government to continue with its plans. So far, the Government has done very well under the leadership of His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta. The Government has allocated a lot of resources to develop the infrastructure in that part of the country so that we are able to harvest these resources - gas and oil - when the time is due. We know that infrastructure is key in any development. It is the first requirement that you need to put in place. Actually, what other developed economies do is that even when they are putting up houses, they first have to construct roads. In Kenya, the situation has been dicey. We keep asking ourselves; which of the two come first? Is it the egg or the chicken? We now know that probably we needed to have done roads, infrastructure and supplied electricity ahead of time. In education, more schools should be put up so that we have enough human resource in those parts of the country to be used by the companies which have been set up there. That way, even the owners will feel they own the resources, are participants and are not just people who 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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