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    "id": 85369,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 148,
        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion for the adoption of this Report. May I start by thanking you for allowing this delegation to travel all the way to Moscow to represent us and to be part of 39 African Parliaments that were part of this Russia/Africa Conference held in Moscow. Personally, I have never been to Russia or Moscow. I have the history of Russia given through history books and news. I believe that there are many Members in this House and Kenyans who have also not been to Russia. Given the history of this country, we have limited horizons in terms of knowing exactly what Russia is all about given the ideological differences that were there at Independence; that is during the Cold War. Our founding fathers set our nation on the path of capitalism. Those were clear choices made at Independence and the Cold War had painted Russia as ancient and evil empire. Personally, I do recall the most scary story of the last Czar of Russia; that is the Romano Family that was murdered in the most cruel execution that took place then. With time, after the end of the Cold War, our horizons have been expanded to see Russia differently. The world has become a global village. For the Chair to have allowed this delegation to represent us there and come back with this Report, it tells you of a new Russia that has a lot to offer to Kenya and to the world. On farming, given the vast land and the great potential that the Russian nation has in terms of farming and the fact that our fertilizer comes from Russia tells you that we have a lot that we can gain from Russia through closer co-operation. Through this conference that was titled “Expanding Horizons of Co-operation”, we can expand our horizons of co-operation to include farming. Our biggest problem is input in terms of fertilizer for farmers. Russia, being a great source of this very essential input in farming, we can, through this diplomacy that we have achieved expand this co-operation and see how, as a nation, we can find a way of developing fertilizer at cheaper rates. If we have cheaper inputs for our farmers, it will increase their income and alleviate poverty. Those are areas that we need to start looking at."
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