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    "id": 1192642,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1192642/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. First, I want to really congratulate and appreciate you. I know you will do justice to the seat and support Hon. Speaker. Having said that, I really thank all the Members who have contributed to this Motion and those who have stayed up to this hour. I do not take it for granted. I say thank you very much. In summary, we appreciate that we must have implementation of the policy. We must ensure we harmonise the licences of the SMEs. I know our senior, the Member for Buuri, was very clear that it is important to have a data base identifying SMEs and research development to ensure that we partner with other organisations to really build the capacity of our SMEs to ensure we expand our tax base. Public participation and ensuring that we have training, capacity building and financial management is very critical. More importantly and as I finalise, we have to mainstream SMEs. As Hon. John Kiarie has said, I hope all ministries will stop competition because we now have a ministry of SMEs. It is very critical. Let us now take everything SME to that ministry. That is so that they are coordinated at one place to ensure that all sectors—be it manufacturing, agriculture or talent, and all the sectors we have—indeed enjoy doing business in Kenya and build our economy. Most importantly is to build growth so that we have taxes that go back to services for our people. With those few remarks, my Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to reply."
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