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    "id": 1194116,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1194116/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kamukunji, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Hassan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 44 (2) (c), I request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industries and Cooperatives regarding remarks made by the Cabinet Secretary for Trade, Investments and Industry that border on threatening to ban the sale of mitumba clothes in the country. The Cabinet Secretary made the remarks during the Changamka Shopping Festival, held at Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) on Tuesday, 1st November 2022. Hon. Speaker, about two million Kenyans are dependent on the second-hand cloth industry for their everyday livelihood. These people are very concerned by the threat made by the Cabinet Secretary, which would affect their livelihoods should it be actualised. Indeed, the utterances by the Cabinet Secretary contradict the ruling party’s manifesto on the bottom-up economic model that seeks to, financially, empower ordinary Kenyans so that the country can generate taxes to spur economic growth. In the recent past, there has been unnecessary overwhelming and negative focus on the"
}