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    "id": 1180871,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1180871/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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    "content": "The vehicles we drive in this country are manufactured in other countries through research and are made to suit their climatic conditions and roads. They are not meant for this country. We see many accidents and loss of spare parts because we are using vehicles from other countries which are developed for their specific use. Therefore, I support this National Automotive Policy. The Ministry in charge should have resources channeled for research in our universities and reduce some of the courses that are not beneficial to this country. We need to put resources into things that change our lives and drive our economy to the next level. Why do we need much history today? Yes, history is important but even someone who has not gone to school now knows where River Nile starts from and where it ends. They know who the first missionary to come to this country was. We must reduce the Christian Religious Education (CRE) and History and move to skilled knowledge. This is when we will generate motor vehicles and have the ideas and talents of young people in manufacturing… Hon. Temporary Speaker, I recall of a young man who wanted to make an aeroplane in Kitale but his idea collapsed somewhere. I wish that young man would have gone to school and received funding for research. We should drive our economy using knowledge acquired from research to manufacture vehicles and spare parts to grow our GDP as a nation. As Hon. Waqo moves this Sessional Paper, I hope that this time round this country will become a country of serious men and women who keep their word. If we can support the Kenya Association of Manufactures (KAM) to pump in resources for research, we shall have industrialists and people who can manufacture serious vehicles. This country is now a dumping ground for motor cycles. Imagine 10 million dead motor cycles, where will we store them? If we control manufacturing and live up to the phrase ‘Buy Kenya, Build Kenya’ we can become an industrialised nation. We should even come up with policies for companies like Toyota Kenya, so that they not only assemble here… Let us have investors who come and set up manufacturing plants in Kenya so that our youth can undergo internship training there and acquire skills. In the long run these youth can become manufacturers because they have acquired knowledge. This is the only way our country is going to grow. Where are we going as a nation if we depend on imports and shortcuts from scrupulous businessmen? So, I support this Sessional Paper because it will support talents, knowledge and competitiveness and it will create business and wealth for our nation. We will also have many of our youth engaged in employment. We have a lot of space in Kenya. I want to believe that when we pass this Sessional Paper, the next thing will be to allocate resources in our Budget to our universities to conduct research so that our young industrialists can manufacture the right items to be used in Kenya. The whole of India uses Mahindra vehicles because they believe in “Buy India, Build India”. We need to have our own Mahindra vehicles manufactured here in Kenya like the Pioneer Nyayo cars by the Nyayo Motor Corporation. We need to have Pioneer I, II and even have Pioneer Makilap II. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support this Sessional Paper."
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