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    "id": 925279,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support that this House ratifies the Luigi Broglio-Malindi Space Centre Agreement between the Republic of Kenya and the Italian Republic. This is a Protocol that came into force in 1962 and it is important to note that this was during the colonial era. It appears that not much has moved since then. The University of Nairobi was then a college of the University of East Africa and that is why it was called the Royal Technical College. It is during that time that other third world countries, which included Korea, Japan and Singapore, were advancing their sciences into space exploration. This is when we came up with such a good centre that would be a milestone in advancing our space engineering and aeronautical exploration that this country needs more than yesterday. Space war was possibly at its apex in 1969, when there were the cosmos nodes in space exploration. Today, Kenya is not anywhere near where these countries are in spite of the fact that we have a centre which possibly could be of great use to us. The country is moving towards emphasising studies and education in sciences. Those sciences include aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineering and other sciences relating to space exploration. It is, therefore, important that it is not just the Luigi Broglio-Malindi Space Centre that this country should be proud of. We should have space centres across the country so that we can advance in this field. Space centres are important in education, defence and employment. As a country, we are riling from unemployment. Our unemployment youths are all over the country. They are highly educated, but there are no jobs for them. If we move towards having centres such as this, we will eliminate the problem and come up with ways and means of reducing unemployment in the country."
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