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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support this Motion, under the persuasion that we have to look at the unemployment position in this country. We also have to consider the development situation in this country. We must be innovative and find out how we can create employment and also develop Kenya. I do realise that nearly all the machinery we need are imported. If we are to do this permanently in our lives, the automotive policy that we use must be changed and tamed to help us develop Kenya. Our agriculture is in need of development. We need to have automotive policies that can enable agriculture to be developed. We import tractors. Some of the tractors we need could be very simple types which I am told are found in India. If we decide to manufacture them, it will not cost us so much. We have to import that kind of technology into this country. Just the technology part, and not the machinery. That is the kind of policy that will help us out of the problem that we find ourselves in. The same goes for motor vehicles. I know my colleagues have spoken about this, and if you listen to them, they have excellent points which can help us. We have to change so that we are not the consumers at all times. I was listening the other time when the President of this country was speaking. In fact, he adopted a policy of non-subsidy for consumption. He could only do it for production. If we are importing vehicles even for the Government, it does not matter how expensive they are, with that policy, subsidy cannot be given because we are consumers. If we were to manufacture some of these things, the Government will come in because that is production. That way we will be directing our resources to what will help us create the employment I was talking about. It will help us to increase our GDP level high enough to cause good development that we need so much. Things like motorcycles, boda boda as it is known in Kenya, do not need very 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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