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    "id": 1180913,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1180913/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 140,
        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "I was in Pakistan about two years ago and I found out something. They are taking a motorcycle, changing the rear wheel and are having electric motor in it. It costs no more than 30,000 rupees to change that motorcycle from the one that we know to a hybrid. This is the time, and that is what we need to do. We do not need long drawn out policies. They are good and we can do them, but those are old policies that will take us back to the past. We need to look at this policy. Hon. Kiarie and others who know about this need to call them and say, “hold on a second, where are we going?” Are you now trying to tell us that you want to build trains here in Nairobi and bring us old technology? We do not. We want new technology. The thing is, why can we not make a bicycle here in Dagoretti? They say that that little thing is called an engine. We cannot make an engine? We have made so many things. At Numerical Machining Complex Ltd I used to sell tractors. We used to bring scrap tractors from the United Kingdom. I used to rebuild that tractor into a completely new one here in Kenya, and sell them with a two-year guarantee. This was in Dagoretti. I used to go to Numerical Machining Complex Ltd if there was something wrong with the camshaft, I had it made there. I went with a broken block and we fixed it there. So, we have the capacity. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks I want to end by saying that this is the right thing done in the wrong way. You do not need what we are seeing here. It is not what we want. We do not want the sledgehammer; we want to do it properly. Thank you very much. I look forward to interacting with those people who prepared this policy. Let us not just do it for the sake of policy because it has been done by over 100 countries. Why do you want to be…"
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