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    "id": 10630,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/10630/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing that we need to start thinking about is when you look at what is happening to the economies around us. People have mentioned Rwanda, Ethiopia and Uganda; one thing that we must ask ourselves, as leaders, is why an investor prefers to go to our neighbour instead of coming to Kenya. One of the things people will tell you is that the cost of labour in this country is exorbitant. I was in Ethiopia on Monday and I looked at what they are doing, and they were all telling me the fact that people are going there to invest is because Kenya is very expensive. All these horticultural growers and flower businesses are moving to Ethiopia because of the low production costs there. We are losing our competitive advantage, as Kenya, although we are saying that we are a major economy. We are losing our competiveness because our labour is expensive. As leaders we have a responsibility to see what it is we need to do to bring down the cost of labour; we have a huge population and we are not going to reap population dividend, so long as our people make demands and become very expensive."
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