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    "id": 1115072,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1115072/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "If the people going to China, who are small and medium-sized businesspeople, are quarantined for 14 days, what does that mean? This House must, through you, protect the people. The Chinese are now informally telling Kenyans: “use emails and telephones to talk to our people. Give business to our people. Do not go to China”. So, this Committee and this House must protect Kenyan citizens. So, I really want you to direct against this trade imbalance, this trade discrimination, that is happening to Kenyan businesspeople. This Government must do something, unless this Government is an appendix of the Chinese Government. When the British did the same, the Government acted very fast. What is so special about these Chinese that they can dump their people here, they can dump their goods here, and they cannot allow Kenyans to go and do business in their country? That is number one. Secondly, you remember I sought a Statement that I was told I would be given in two weeks. It was about the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) and was based on the thousands of Kenyans who lost their hard-earned savings through the Cytonn scheme. I appeared before the Committee that promised, in the Hansard, Response would be in two weeks. I appeared. There is no Answer. I also asked a similar Question on the late publication of key economic reports and documents by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS). I am yet to receive the Response, two months since then. Hon. Speaker, some of us bring Requests here and were are told “two weeks” or “three weeks”. We are now two months without Answers. We are asking for these Statements on behalf of the people of Kenya. We are asking on behalf of the people who lost their money through Cytonn and the fraud that the CMA as a regulator has taken. I asked for a serious Statement on the KNBS. That, certain reports must be given to this House and country even before the Budget is formulated. The CS violated. What has happened even with independent power producers is that it takes two months every time I seek a Statement, and the national Executive goes on to sanitise. So, particularly on the matter of the Chinese, I really want you to direct. At least for the one to the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, I spoke to Hon. Wanga. She promised to bring it by Thursday. But, Hon. Speaker, you need to put your foot down and give direction on why, since Covid-19, the only country that does not allow Kenyans to go to it and do business with it is China. If you go there today, they will do a quarantine on you for either 14 days or 21 days—specifically telling Kenyans who do business in Gikomba, Eastleigh and other parts of the country: “use your email if you want to do business with us and our companies in China”. This Government must also close doors on the Chinese. Until they comply, no Chinese should come to this country. So, the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives promised to give a Response in two weeks. It is now one month."
}