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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ogari",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Trade",
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        "legal_name": "Simon Ogari Arama",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, all said and done, I would also like to highlight a few items that I have noted. A lot of recommendations have been made, especially with regard to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Education. I do not know whether, in their wisdom – the recommendations we have made, a lot of them touch on the Ministry of Trade – since I came back, I think, maybe, that is why the Principals, in their wisdom, decided to appoint me in the Ministry of trade in order to take the action myself. So, as for the Ministry of Trade, definitely, I am going to try and see what we can implement there. Most important to me, what I could highlight is the issue of the students and the education sector, which I think our Ministry has to be very serious because we know we have limited learning institutions in this country and the Russians have been offering us quite a number of bursaries for our students to study in Russia. Like now, we have been having about 30 students who have been given scholarships to Russia by the Russian Government. This year alone, only 25 were taken. I think five were yet to be taken. There are many others and if we requested, we could get much more. It has not happened and we wonder why. Maybe, the students in Kenya and the parents are thinking that Russia is what it used to be – that issue about racism – unless it is somewhere outside Moscow or elsewhere, we would like to state and confirm that Russians are not as racist as we perceive them to be here. We would like to assure our students that from the tour we had and from the talks we had with the residents and from our own students studying in Russia, their problems are very different from racism. So, we would like to clear the air that Russia is a friendly country. If there is any issue or problem like racism, it is what is all over the world; it is not something to fear. It is something they are also trying to address and they are aware of it and our students should continue going there."
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