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    "id": 1082672,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1082672/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
        "slug": "samson-ndindi-nyoro"
    },
    "content": " Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. Now it is not a Mr. but a Madam Speaker. Our economy currently is dominated by what I would call extracting sectors. Those are sectors where we deal with commodities and production that has got decreasing returns. I say so because our economy is predominantly an agricultural economy and in an agricultural economy or a commodity economy, it costs you more to produce extra. I feel that as a country, for us to increase the revenues, we have to look at the enterprise that has got increasing returns especially where we blend production and what we produce and we infuse technology in it so that we are at an economic level of countries that are actually growing. There is no country in the whole of history that grew based on commodities and based on production especially production that has got decreasing returns. I will wind up because I can see my time is over. I wonder what this regime expects. They have militarised our businesses. They have harassed our enterprise. It goes without saying that when we harass the same people who work and toil, especially those who are involved in enterprise like manufacturing, we do not expect to have a bigger base in terms of collection of our revenues. Therefore, it behooves upon this regime to change the tact. They should be serving tea and welcoming the people who are toiling, the businesspeople in our country, other than demonizing them and using state apparatus..."
}