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    "id": 1128344,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1128344/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "The overarching objective of this Bill is to give some legal recognition to a very important research institute that is currently hanging as an appendage of ministries, and at times it is not quite sure what it does. Its anchorage does not give it the gravitas to do what it needs to. As we may remember back in 1942, the colonial Government established a central laboratory at Kabete, in Nairobi. It had an aim of initiating and developing industries to relieve the shortage of industrial goods as part of mitigation to the effects of the 2nd World War. There were shortages, so we needed to create industries everywhere so that we can be innovative and keep on the supply of goods. It is at this time that the Kenya Industrial Management Board was established. A number of Members of this House will remember there was a cooking fat called Kimbo. Kimbo came from the Kenya Industrial Management Board (KIMBO). It is one of the innovative things that was created as a result of this. The cooking fat was manufactured by East Africa Industries. KIMBO administered the central laboratory, which was later expanded to a regional level and its management was taken over by the East Africa Community. At that point it was renamed the East Africa Industrial Research Organisation."
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