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    "id": 924879,
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    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for ensuring that Members are consulting in low tones. There are other things we can do as a country that will give us an advantage in export and import balances that we have today. In Kenya, God has given us one of the best climatic conditions. Nature has offered us one of the best environments to live in. We have a natural way of tapping into electricity. Most of the electricity we use today is natural. We have hydro- electricity, geothermal electricity, solar electricity and wind electricity. Electricity is one of the things we can obtain naturally with minimal effort. It requires only one investment and once we have it in place, we will export and sell the surplus electricity to the international market. We have seen countries investing and doing electricity business. We have potential, skills and manpower to do it. Our youths have the knowledge of how to run it. We do not need to use foreigners to do it. We only need to buy machines that we cannot manufacture locally at the moment. I hope that someday our Silicon Valley will be able to manufacture them. We should get this done properly so that we grow our market. Controlling of the land prices is another concern. Our land is too expensive to attract foreigners to produce locally. So, we import their produce. If you look at their land, it is reasonably affordable. In Kenya, we have made our land so expensive to the detriment of our economy. What can we do as leaders if we engage our minds? What is it that we can do to cut the prices of land so that our people are not disadvantaged in terms of export? With those remarks, I support the Motion."
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