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    "id": 1045739,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1045739/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, aware that the existing Kenya Diaspora Policy provides for the mainstreaming of the Kenya Diaspora into national development process in line with the aspirations and goals of the Kenya Vision 2030; noting that formal remittances from the Kenyan Diaspora accounts for over 3 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product channelled by an estimated three million Kenyans; noting that contribution by the Kenyan Diaspora to the country’s development goes much beyond personal remittances to include increased trade links, better access to foreign capital markets, skills and technology transfer, Diaspora investments funds, knowledge exchange among other enormous potential benefits; acknowledging that the Diaspora community continues to contribute immensely to national growth and the economy through increased household investments in education, entrepreneurship, health, finance and housing; concerned that Kenya ought to formulate practical and incentive-driven policy to harness existing and future Diaspora resources for socio-economic development; cognizant that Kenya has an obligation to counter the challenges hindering Diaspora contribution to national development; this House resolves that the Government, in conjunction with Diaspora representation and other key stakeholders, formulates a comprehensive, incentive-driven and affirmative action- based Diaspora Policy together with a corresponding implementation framework and organization structure to harness the ever increasing Diaspora resources for national development and that the said policy be presented to the National Assembly within one year for consideration."
}