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    "id": 1032339,
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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Wanga",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The party leader is very passionate. I thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion annulling the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Regulations. As has been said by my colleagues, the Committee under the Statutory Instruments Act has the option to either accept the regulations in their entirety or annul them. So, it puts the Committee in a very awkward position and I understand. The regulations we are dealing with here, some are very crucial regulations. We are talking about development of our special economic zones. I have looked at the amendments and what they are trying to bring in place is to have a one-stop shop where people operating within special economic zones can have their issues addressed in one place, be they issues of labour, licensing or taxes. That is very important. I would have hoped that these regulations would have been left in force so that we deal with the issue of our Special Economic Zones. This is because the country is dealing with tough economic times. Our young people are unemployed. So, as we weigh these matters as a House, let us look at the value of annulment vis-a-vis the value that will be brought in force by these regulations. Recently, the Committee that I Chair on Finance and National Planning visited the Malaba, Busia and other borders. We were very concerned to note that countries such as Uganda have created Special Economic Zone areas where cost of power is lowered and subsidised. These are areas where ease of doing business is enabled. We were concerned to note that we were exporting and passing through our borders a lot of plant and machinery because people go to manufacture in other places because of ease of doing business in those countries. Therefore, when we have regulations such as these trying to make it easier for us to make business and manufacture here, we should enable that to happen."
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