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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Patrick Musimba",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this extremely momentous Bill. At the outset, I want to paint a picture of hope for Kenya; a picture of the aspirations of this nation. Currently, food production in this country is under threat because a lot of the inputs are expensive due to their industry-driven nature. A lot of inputs are expensive because they are imported. Inefficiencies from various sectors have also contributed to the cost of inputs. The clothing that we wear is at the rudimentary level for basic needs for Kenyans. We are looking at a Kenya where there will be learning on a 24-hour basis in every homestead so that we can catalyse the human capital element for this nation, to ensure our competitiveness not just in this region but globally. The airlifts of the 1960s have to continue being powered by ensuring every village in Kenya has power – power that is affordable and sustainable for each household. We have to look at a time where movement of goods and services across the breadth of the 582,000 square kilometres of this great country is efficient. If you want to move produce from Nyandarua, be it potatoes, all the way to Lokichogio, it is something that is positively enabled by provision of a rail system that is driven by electric power. Development of a subway system to cover the greater metropolitan areas of Nairobi, Uasin Gishu and Kiambu, among others, relies on a sustainable energy source. Such development will enable us to develop our cities and sustain the public service of this nation. We want to see a nation whose connectivity is without a shred of doubt. When we talk about availability of 4G or 5G networks across the country, it is not an issue because the best stations can be run by reliable power that is pure and ensures communication not only for our security services, but also for our citizenry. Somebody in a village in Nambale, as it was alluded to earlier, and someone in my village of Sekeleni, should be able to communicate via video calls once we have reliable and sustaining power. The berths we are developing along our coastal line, all the way from Lunga-Lunga to Lamu, are sustainable because they are operated by power. Ships docking into those berths do not have to do so on the basis of a timetable because of visibility. We want ships that are not inhibited so that we can have an offloading capacity that will spur creation of hundreds of thousands and even millions of jobs for our youths graduating from tertiary institutions of learning for them to be employed and contribute to the development of this great nation. That 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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