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    "id": 1180942,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1180942/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon Kaguchia John",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Indeed, I can speak in Kiswahili but I cannot do so immediately after Mama Zamzam because she is so fluent. I will speak in Kiswahili another day. I take this opportunity to support this Sessional Paper by the Government. I appreciate that for once we have a Government whose intention is to move this policy forward and ensure it becomes a reality. This is by ensuring that our country takes the next steps in terms of manufacturing, industrialisation and production. For too long this country has celebrated the service industry more and yet it does not produce. When you do not produce you do not grow the economy. When I see this Sessional Paper, I appreciate what the Government is thinking about. For that reason, I would like to add my voice and say if we start manufacturing and assembling cars in Kenya, we will create employment. Unemployment is a crisis we are facing and we must deal with it. This is one of the ways in which we will deal with this problem of unemployment. It is not far-fetched that we are thinking about manufacturing cars. I am reminded of a gentleman who was a tutor at Nairobi Technical Training Institute by the name Gitonga Muchau Wathanga. This gentleman is now late and he hailed from my constituency. He assembled a limousine which was showcased in all our media stations and we celebrated him. I remember when we went for his burial a short time ago, the limousine was parked there as a testimony of a Kenyan who lived, gave his all, was innovative and attempted to manufacture or assemble a limousine. He made a very nice limousine from B15 which is an old type and it is there up to date. If this kind of Sessional Paper had been done and the Government had implemented it, our late friend would probably have had the support to start an industry that would have seen us grow our economy, promote trade, and ensure that we also become manufacturers and assemblers of limousines in Kenya. That is why I believe that we have the capacity and our young people have innovative minds that can help us produce unique products. We do not only have to think of simple and small industries like manufacturing of small vehicles like tuk tuks . Those are okay but as a country, we have the capacity to make more sophisticated vehicles and become the pride of Africa."
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