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    "id": 780401,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tongi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2611,
        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "I have just come from Nyaribari Chache Constituency, Kisii County, a little while ago. This is the constituency which I come from. We have a lot of challenges which should not be a challenge. The ACP-EU has a programme of financing some of these projects. We have a lot of rain in Kisii. The biggest challenge I have in Kisii today is the poor road network because of the heavy rains. It is raining heavily. I have just left there a little while ago. We do not have a system of harvesting this water. If we had a system of harvesting the water that is going down today, we would use in future because it rains and that water is wasted. We should tap into this money which is about US$31billion. It is a lot of money which can make a difference. If we get a fraction of that money and it is invested into our economy by way of creating water harvesters, that will create employment opportunity for our youths. Then they will start car wash businesses, especially in Kisii Town where I come from. We will start the car wash business for the youths because not all of us will be sitting in the office, and not all of us can create employment opportunities for people to sit in the office. An Hon. Member has spoken of the blue economy. We all have an opportunity to enhance that. If we can have this support from the EU and we get this money which comes in in very soft terms, we will use it to start fish farming for our youths, small scale businesses for our youths and many economic opportunities for our youths. The day we stop thinking of employment as the only source of money, that will be the beginning of elimination of the challenges that we are having today. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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