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    "id": 1077094,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1077094/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Adan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13418,
        "legal_name": "Adan Hajj Ali",
        "slug": "adan-haji-ali"
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    "content": "Every dollar that is spent in export promotion has a potential to generate $87 dollars of additional exports. So, this is a viable investment that the country must engage in to gain comparative advantage. The country has in the recent past negotiated and ratified various trade agreements, from the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA). As a country, we need to take advantage of those milestones that offer huge opportunities to farmers and pastoralist communities like those living in Mandera County. We should invest in the productive sector and strengthen our Trade Promotion Organizations (TPOs) as well as representation in the export market. It is quite worrying that Kenya is unacceptably under-represented in terms of trade representatives. We have only four trade attaches in the existing 61 missions. Trade attaches are largely meant to promote the country’s products abroad. How is it that about 80 per cent of livestock products, like milk and meat imports, in the Gulf Corporation countries comes from New Zealand, which is 14-hour flight from the Gulf countries while Kenya is only five hours? We need to rethink our priorities as a country and support vibrant sectors of the economy, especially agriculture, livestock and fisheries. It is my hope that going forward, the budget of this important sector will be adequate so as to enable relevant departments to achieve their mandate. With those few remarks, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support. Thank you."
}