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    "id": 1183571,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1183571/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "THAT, this House adopts Sessional Paper No. 1 of 2022 on the National Automotive Policy, laid on the Table of the House on 25th May 2022. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the overall objective of this Sessional Paper No. 1 of 2022 on the National Automotive Policy is to provide an enabling environment for our automotive industry players to realise their full potential and position Kenya as a major automotive manufacturer. The aim of this policy is to improve the local automotive assembly ecosystem and to expand the local market size by promotion of local parts manufacturing. Hon. Members will appreciate that our local assembly industry largely suffered immensely as a result of the liberalisation of the market in the 1990s. This led to the near collapse of the local assembly industry as they saw a lot of completed units being imported into the country. Consequently, the manufacture of automotive spare parts almost caused a complete halt and death to the industry. Therefore, this National Automotive Policy has been developed through a very large consultative stakeholder process and it is informed by Kenya’s developmental agenda and industry needs. Stakeholders’ views, from the dealers, consumers, assemblers, auto-component manufacturers, Government, global players, training, research and development institutions were incorporated in developing this policy and therefore a very comprehensive policy that has taken views from largely all the stakeholders that I have mentioned and including consumers of auto-parts and automotive mobiles."
}