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    "id": 1192627,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1192627/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emgwen, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josses Lelmengit",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving this opportunity. I would like to support the Motion by Hon. Elachi. I would also like to congratulate her on developing a unified policy for SMEs. We all understand that SMEs play a crucial role. One, is to increase the local income, and provide employment to thousands of people. This in turn helps in the industrialisation of the rural and backward areas back at home. To bring down the cost of living, we first have to empower the SMEs. We need to have locally made products, and empower our people on the areas of workmanship and standardisation. I would give an example of the shoe makers taking into consideration they are very costly. Toughees are shoes commonly worn by high school, and are roughly Ksh2,000. I would equate it to a cow’s ear. We have skins and hides in this country. Why can we not empower them, give standardisation policies and also provide good workmanship? Secondly, we need to protect these SMEs from unhealthy competition from imports. We should ban importation of locally made or manufactured products like toothpicks and others, so that we can empower our SMEs and sell the agenda ‘buy Kenya, build Kenya’. For that, I support that we standardise the policy for SMEs. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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