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    "id": 1128471,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1128471/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Keiyo South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Rono",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13367,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Kipkogei Rono",
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    "content": "I want to commend the President of Kenya for saying “Buy Kenya, Build Kenya” although he falls short halfway because he does not see this through. As we talk now, furniture continues to be imported from China, Malaysia and all over the world. Let me also equally borrow a leaf from the President who sometimes wears clothes from our Rivatex Factory. This is a good example we should emulate. Why are we importing clothing instead of empowering the cotton industry and farmers? We have no business doing so. Why are we importing shoes when we have hides and skins in Kenya? The route to take at this point in time is to empower research. We should have these research institutes like KIRDI in almost every county. That way, we will be tapping talents countrywide, from every region. We have diverse talents in many regions. A colleague mentioned the fact that we need to add value to our products - particularly farm products. We farm tomatoes and yet we import tomato paste. We farm pineapples and mangos and yet we cannot even make mango juice for heaven’s sake. We still import mango juice yet here we have guys already processing mango juice and we do not support them. Laws should be made to strengthen products being developed here. I wish to inform Hon. Members about the issue of wheelbarrow. We are getting wrong impressions about it. Wheelbarrow is compared to what an orange is to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) or an umbrella is to Wiper Democratic Movement of Kenya (WDM-K). So, can an orange carry any luggage? If we are to compare this scenario, then a wheelbarrow is by all standards ahead of an orange and an umbrella which can only be used when it is raining."
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