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    "id": 1180859,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1180859/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mosop, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abraham Kirwa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would like to support this Motion on Sessional Paper No.1 of 2022 National Automotive Policy. This is long overdue. We needed to have implemented most of the suggestions put on this Sessional Paper. Kenya is a country that is still developing. We depend on almost 60 to 80 per cent of importation of vehicles from other countries. By doing so, we spend a lot of our money outside the country. As we approve this Sessional Paper, it will help us improve our local manufacturing in our own country. It is going to create job opportunities for most of our youths who are unemployed. The citizens of this country will also get an opportunity to be employed in most of these manufacturing industries. As we move forward as a nation, we need to look for more opportunities and this is one of them; a simple plan based in the country. We should encourage Kenyans to buy Kenyan- made vehicles. Most Kenyans import vehicles from Japan, Germany and many other countries. Their economies have continued to grow because we support them. As we move forward and change these policies, it is going to help us as a nation to increase our Growth Domestic Product (GDP), and increase vehicle ownership by coming up with ownership schemes where people will invest in, so that they can buy a vehicle. A common person may not have cash of about Ksh3 million or Ksh4 million to buy a vehicle when he or she needs to. If as a nation we can come up with a scheme for housing, it would allow the common Mwananchi to own a vehicle by just depositing a little money. He then gets a chance to buy a brand new vehicle and pay slowly because it is manufactured here. We will try to encourage corporations or companies to do leasing of brand new vehicles. That way, they will continue purchasing the locally manufactured vehicles in the country. Our GDP will continue to grow, our youth and people will continue to get jobs, and we will continue as a country to be self-sustained. We also need to implement low emission vehicles in our country. If we are talking of climate change and making sure that we have a country that is not polluted, we need to make sure that most of the vehicles which are on the road, and are emitting a lot of dangerous gas, do not operate on our roads. We need to ensure that the policy is implemented. The police should be on the lookout for the vehicles which truly, emit a lot of unnecessary gas, and encourage electric vehicles. The price of fuel and gas has continued to go up and if as a nation we continue to depend on fuel as we have done in the past, it will in turn affect us because we depend on it. If most of the vehicles will be electric or even solar, we are going to reduce our dependence on fuel thereby saving more. We will not be importing as much fuel as we should. Part of this policy is to encourage Kenyans to manufacture some electric vehicles which will consume less gas. We should pass this Motion. At the moment, we are talking of five years or less. They say by 2024, it is going to be three years and then we will end up at zero on the issue of reduction of years allowed to import a vehicle. I do not support it. People should be given an opportunity to import a vehicle even if it means giving it two or three years. We should not completely go to zero where you cannot The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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