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"content": "in Roysambu who are making recliner seats because this House deliberately decided to support local furniture manufacturing. When President Ruto said, \" Hii kitu inaitwa furniture nimbao, msumari na nyundo,\" people thought it was a joke. We now see people like the activist and great businessman, Morara, excelling in the furniture business courtesy of policy interventions passed by this House. As I wind up, I want to reiterate that, as a country, we must be selfish. We must ensure that we support local manufacturing of our products by having tariffs that make it more expensive to import products and by growing our own manufacturing. We can start slowly and grow. We can be a hub of manufacturing around the region and in Africa. I beg to second. Thank you."
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"content": " Thank you. Hon. Members, before I propose the Question for the Bill to be debated, join me in welcoming students from Jabali Primary and Junior Secondary School, Kiambaa Constituency, Kiambu County, and students from Save Our Souls Junior Secondary School, Nyali, Mombasa County. They are welcome to follow the proceedings of this House this morning. Members, you can see them sitting in the Public Gallery. We said that we would all welcome them through a foot thump."
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"content": " Hon. Gikaria."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to re-emphasise what the Leader of the Majority Party has just moved and seconded by the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. If there is something that will spur economic growth in this country, it is transformers. Sometimes, people take it lightly when they see the President launching a Last Mile Connectivity Project somewhere. Others criticise it but do not know the importance of what the President is doing by launching them. Energy is an enabler that spurs the economic growth of our country. I cannot over-emphasise that. The biggest debate in the country is about the cost of electricity. As we talk in our Committee, we are looking at independent power producers and how much we can contribute towards lowering the cost of electricity. I stand to support what has been moved today. It will go a long way in enabling us to do the critical things over and above the three things the Majority Leader has indicated. Most importantly, it will lower the cost of electricity. If you look at transformers, as indicated, we want to encourage local producers to continue manufacturing. They were not considered in terms of the 25 per cent tax imposed on completed transformers. The local manufacturers will benefit and compete in the market. The most important thing is the cost that will be lowered by allowing that tax so that the local manufacturers can compete and by selling transformers at a cheaper price that will escalate to the consumer. This country, particularly the security team, must relook at the laws and penalties for people who steal transformers and oil from transformers. As I have indicated, energy is an infrastructure that is key to the transformation of the economic development of this country. People, mostly scrap metal dealers and other criminals, have been stealing our transformers, which has affected the economic activity of the affected areas for over one week. It is important for us to address the issue of criminals who steal transformers and oil from transformers to do welding business. That is important for this country. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "As it has been said, we need to support the proposed amendment so that it can attain its intended purpose. I support. Thank you."
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"content": " Thank you. The Member for Buuri."
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"content": " I stand to support this amendment. One of our Government's programmes is to enhance manufacturing. We have to look at the various inputs a manufacturer requires to achieve this. Of course, electricity is one of them, requiring various components. The requirement for firewood is dwindling. Our youth want to start businesses in rural areas, and we need to create self-employment opportunities in the country. We need to enhance research and connect many people with electricity because they deserve to see power in their homes. The cost of importing transformers is draining our foreign exchange, yet we have many electrical engineering graduates who need to be seen to be employed somewhere. They need to be encouraged. We need to reduce the cost of production of goods and services because it will have a multiplier effect. We need new high-capacity transformers to enhance the capacity to maximise power in our rural areas. We should encourage the Last Mile Connectivity Project. Therefore, anything that would reduce the cost of manufacturing and transformers should be supported. I thank the Leader of the Majority Party and the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning for finding it proper and appropriate to do away with excise duty when the Government wants to connect as many people as possible to electricity. Other than the excise duty on transformers, the excise duty on so many other items should be removed to enhance local production capacity. This is sector-specific because it addresses manufacturing transformers. We will enhance productivity once this cost is reduced. We will also encourage manufacturers not to be confined to Nairobi only. We would like to invest where we come from because we also have the capacity to produce transformers. If we remove the excise duty, we will import important items of manufacturing transformers. I support and tell this House that it is high time we supported the Government in delivering its mandate of encouraging local production. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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