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    "id": 1165716,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1165716/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamunga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 738,
        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
        "slug": "rose-nyamunga-ogendo"
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, the third part of the Bill contains clauses on Regional Economic Bloc. In Clause 8 the Bill states - “County governments may enter into agreements for the establishment of economic blocs where they have shared geographical region and for the enhancement of trade and economic development.” Once this is done we are going to have inter-trade whereby these counties can be producing this then there are exchanges because I believe we need all the resources in Kenya even before we talk of external market. We should also, first of all, satisfy our local market before we look outside Kenya. We need to work on food security that to me is a critical thing. We need to work on our mineral resources that we have underground. We need to work properly on the oil industry because we know that we have oil. It is a matter of developing for the good and the betterment of this country. We do not want to start these white elephants whereby you start a project here and you do not work on it properly and next time you hear that it is not completed. Look at the Galana Kualu Project. It was a good idea, but it is a now white elephant project. We have Tana River which has plenty of water, but that water is going to waste because it gets into the bottomless ocean and we do not benefit from it. So, you see such a good project a lot has been done, I do not know whether due diligence was done or not. We were told one hectare was supposed to produce 40 bags of maize, but it ended up producing only 10 bags. The next thing we heard about this project, it was dead. It is unfortunate that we start such mega projects and we leave them to county governments to manage them. I do not think county governments will sit pretty looking at millions of money put in projects like that and then they just disappear to nowhere. I have talked about the economic bloc. The economic bloc shall have the following objectives: - (1) The diversification and facilitation of trade and production of goods and services amongst member counties."
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