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    "id": 1128501,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1128501/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "There are some industries we have as a country and we must have a way of ring-fencing them so that even if they may not produce good quality products as Japan, China or any other country, our can people come up with something which is usable. We need to make a deliberate decision of investing and supporting them. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us and given us an opportunity to learn that until we depend on ourselves, we will not go far. Let us look at the hospital beds for example. Our jua kali artisans have come up with one of the best beds. But our governors have not invested in the jua kali beds. Instead they go for the imported ones at the expense of the local industry. We should do a little better than we are doing. The beauty is that the banks are willing to invest in the small jua kali companies because that is where the economy is going. We all thought it is a bad industry to invest in as banks, but we now know that the most honest people you can deal with in the banking industry are the small scale farmers and the jua kali entrepreneurs. This is because their first charge whenever they make any money is to service their loans. That has proven that they are credible people we can invest in."
}