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    "id": 1180888,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1180888/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Karitho",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, Kenya is among the best models of technology in East and Central Africa. If none of these countries in the region has this idea of manufacturing their motor vehicles, we will have a very big market. There is no economy in this world that can grow without exports. If you look at the countries which have grown, Japan, China and those other Middle East countries, they have grown because they had a chance to export their products. Therefore, we can take advantage of Africa where other countries are a bit sleepy and build our automobile industry and have a market around the world. We will have our GDP growing very fast. Our youth employment will be available. We will be in a position to control the region as far as economic giants are concerned. I wholly support this Sessional Paper and believe the Government is going to implement it fully. Very soon we are going to have our own automobiles distributed and sold around the world. Locally, we import very many vehicles through the county governments, individual ownerships and the national Government. We import very many vehicles every year at very exorbitant prices. We will be in a position to be exporters of automobiles in Africa and the world. I therefore wholly support this idea. Since we have already established institutions like Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and other institutions like the one in Mombasa where we have students already learning about these automobiles, it will be easy for us to start this programme and build our country. I support it and believe it will come to reality and we will be proud owners of vehicles that are our own. Thank you."
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