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    "id": 1183579,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1183579/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Therefore, this National Automotive Policy has been driven to revitalise this industry and address the myriad of challenges affecting it. This includes the lack of a dedicated legal and institutional regulatory framework. As I mentioned, importation of parts by franchise holders is currently happening instead of us procuring from local parts manufacturers, therefore, killing our industrialisation goals. Of course, the influx of used fully built units amongst others is also killing job opportunities for our young people who are trained automotive engineers and designers of parts. We have a huge repository of young men and women who are trained and can design motor vehicle and other machinery parts. We are denying them job opportunities simply by allowing the influx of fully built units either of motor vehicles or other machinery. Therefore, the National Automotive Policy takes a holistic approach to propose measures that are aimed at unlocking the industry across the entire value chain and related sectors of the economy. This policy aims to do the following: Provide a legal institutional regulatory framework for the development of the automotive industry, support motor vehicle and motorcycle assembling locally, harmonise standards, forge collaboration mechanisms in the industry, and facilitate market access for sector products and services including access to public sector procurement. It also seeks to promote innovation, research development and technology to facilitate local component parts manufacturing and development of incentive schemes for investments and reinvestments. So, we encourage people to invest in this locomotive assembly and parts manufacturing in our country. Hon. Temporary Speaker, to set the industry on long-term growth path, this policy measures are premised on the Kenya Vision 2030 blue print. It aims to transform Kenya into a newly industrialised middle-income country providing high quality of life to all its citizens by 2030. In view of the Executive Order No.1 of 2022 and the Kenya Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda 2022-2027, this policy will contribute to Kenya’s socio-economic development by enhancing the local manufacturing sector contribution to our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and skills development, technology transfer, and jobs and wealth creation by facilitating investments. The sector has the potential to employ over 100,000 people directly and close to one million people indirectly over the next few years if this policy is passed and implemented. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks and observing the time, I beg to move and urge Members to support this Sessional Paper No.1 of 2022 on the National Automotive Policy. As I have mentioned, it will be quite critical to enable our manufacturing agenda to 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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