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    "id": 1060172,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1060172/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "country has been rated as being not the best, but above there, in terms of doing business and ease of doing business. We have been attracted business magnets because of this friendly environment and we need to make it friendlier. As I support this Bill, as a country, we need to put our priorities right. On the just concluded Supplementary Estimates, around Kshs250 million has been slashed from the National Council for Persons with Disabilities of which Kshs50 million is to buy sunscreen lotion to protect our brothers with albinism from getting cancer from the effect of sunrays. Therefore, we should at times set our priorities right and this Bill has really prioritised our businesses in this country. The business laws of our country are kind of outdated. If you read these laws when they were enacted, some of them date back to 1960s and 1970s and most of them trace their roots from our former colonizer, namely, the British. Moreover, these laws are not customised to fit our environment because Kenyan problems require Kenyan solutions. Kenyan businesses and the way we do businesses is not the way the UK may do their business. India has customised their way of doing business. They have put social attachment into their way of doing business and if you see businesses owned by Indians, they are communal and family businesses. In addition, they have a way of doing it. Our Muslim brothers have a custom in which they do not charge interest on loans they have given to their family members. They call it Haram. They have grown businesses. Therefore, these laws should be customised into our economy and into our traditions, so that we can run our economy. Furthermore, any economy is run by businesses not Government employment. Government employees are consumers of our taxes while SMEs are generators of innovations, employment, taxes and are the wheels that run and move our economy. For those who do not know, a salary is a bribe to bribe you forget your ambition so that you can assist somebody else to achieve his ambition. Most of the time, the Government has been bribing our very intelligent people. They forget their ambitions of innovation and running businesses and end up being in Government running businesses that never make money. Most of our parastatals are making losses. For example, we have been injecting a lot of money into KQ. We have been forcing all our Government officials to travel on KQ, so that they can make profits, but they make losses."
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