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    "id": 925270,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saku, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Rasso",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dido Ali Raso",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I thank our Hon. Chair for providing effective leadership to the Committee and also making sure that the Committee was able to effectively study the BSC to the extent that we visited the site, talked to the scientists and the administrators at the facility in Malindi. We also visited the ground station and the launch site in the sea. We left with the understanding that Kenya truly needs this facility. Last weekend was the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing. If one watched the programme that was shown on the BBC, Al Jazeera and other major news networks of the world, it just showed that the next frontier of science, innovation and technology is in the area of space science, medicine and weather. All these bring to light the facility at Malindi. Today, we have the KSA. We never had this institution before last year. When the BSC was established, Kenya did not have a serious agency to counteract the Italians. Today, the Government’s initiative of having this Agency and funding it from the public coffers is a step in the right direction. My Chairman has already alluded to the fact that this Agreement is a major departure and a big improvement to the existing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that was signed in 1995. To this extent, it is in Kenya’s national interest that this House ratifies the BSC Agreement of 2017 that is behind schedule by almost six to eight months. Kenya provides a more suitable site for launching a satellite and sub-orbital platform because we are on the Equator. For many years, we have not managed to effectively interact and use this facility. Maybe we did not have sufficient scientific know-how or enough capacity for our people to enter that facility and be part of that establishment. 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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