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    "id": 1055420,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1055420/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we will, in 25 years, have an additional 990 items. What am I trying to say? I am saying that the treaty allows 4,006 items from the UK to land in our market duty-free in 25 years. I now want to point out a few implications of this scenario. One is that it is time for Kenya to wake up to the realities of development and organise itself to basically compete and to industrialise and start processing and producing for the market. Signing the EPA immediately will lead us into competition. Based on that, this wakeup call should enable us, as a country, to embark on transformation. We are doing very little transformation. What we are selling in the UK are primary goods and very little manufactured or processed goods. The other issue that is important for us to look at is that it is advantageous if, and only if, we take this opportunity to position ourselves to compete in terms of the number of goods or the tariff lines that we place on the UK market."
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