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    "id": 1128416,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1128416/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Masinga, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Mbithi Mwalyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to air my views on the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute Bill (National Assembly Bill No.44 of 2020). This institute needs to be established by a law enacted by Parliament because it is the only industrial research institute that I know of. I have known about it for some time and that is the reason why we need it like yesterday. We have spent our money importing items from China, Germany and the United Kingdom. For example, the air conditioning vents in this chamber are all imported from abroad. They are so simple and can be manufactured here, but that cannot be done because no establishment has been given direction by KIRDI to manufacture them. The work of KIRDI is to research, come up with models for manufacturers and give them to manufacturing companies. The manufacturing companies can then copy those models through their engineers and start manufacturing. We will then minimise the importation we are doing because all our money is going overseas. This country will only grow if we make something of our own. We can then proudly say, for example, that this melted steel is manufactured in the country from a model that has been produced on paper and in practise by KIRDI. We have many engineers who have studied manufacturing, but are unable to manufacture because they do not have models. If you manufacture something that has not been certified by KIRDI, people will say that it is only manufactured in Kenya and it will not pass the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) test because it has not been accepted locally. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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