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    "id": 1032361,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me an opportunity to add my voice to this particular Report of the Committee and also to support the fact that these Regulations should be annulled. We know the importance of special economic zones in this country, especially when it comes to industrial development and also market for our produce; whereby we are mainly an agricultural country. Freedom of access should be unlimited. No Kenyan should be barred from passing through or entering some of these areas. So, I find the Regulations quite limiting and in breach of the Constitution, where they will limit the movement of Kenyans. We need public participation in the decisions that are made within these zones and even the choice of products that are supposed to be processed or value-added in these special economic zones. We know that value addition in our country, as at now is less than 30 per cent, or around 16 per cent. If we are at 16 per cent in terms of agricultural produce value addition, we need to add value to this produce. If there is consultation between the producers and those who are processing, this will also inform the direction that this country moves in terms of investment in the right industrialisation approaches that will enhance value addition to our products. I find the Regulations limiting in the sense that they seem to touch on constitutionality of this country in the sense that there has not been sufficient consultation and involvement of relevant institutions, like this House. Therefore, we cannot have these Regulations passed. So, I support that they are annulled."
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