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    "id": 802860,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. When I saw this Statement on the Order Paper I called the Senator and was perplexed. We will spend US$5 million, when you do the mathematics, to import only 30 buses. That is about Kshs17 million per bus, which is about US$170,000. By this action, we are indeed negating the Big Four Agenda and I thank the Senator for talking about it. Instead of creating jobs locally and building our manufacturing sector, we are now obsessed with things from outside. When will we ever look at ourselves and say that we can build our manufacturing sector, help our devolved governments or even give incentives to companies to come and manufacture them here? I support this Statement and concur with the sentiments of my sister that it should be committed to a particular Committee so that action can follow for it is very sad. What will we tell the millions of our university students who graduate every year and walk in the streets because they cannot get any job? This is sad and there is no reason we should keep quiet. This House has got to condemn the move by whichever department. I do not know the department that is purporting to import. Even if the buses were to come from Germany, they would not last for long because our roads are dilapidated. The vehicles that are manufactured here are better. A company like Labh Singh Harnam Singh (LSHS) or the other one that assembles buses 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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