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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi West, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Nguna",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this Motion by Hon. Beatrice Elachi. Let me start by thanking her and secondly, wishing all the women a happy International Women’s Day. This Motion is coming at a time when we are experiencing unfavourable balance of trade in this country. I am talking about regionally, that is Africa and internationally. You will also realise that this Motion is coming at a time when we are implementing a new CBC Education System. We will not lack issues of labour when it comes to implementing it. Another issue is that it is coming when the Kenya Shilling is losing ground on major world currencies like the US Dollar, Euro and Sterling Pound. Implementation or enhancement of these EPZ programmes in the country will have a positive economic multiplier effect in our economy. The only way to actualise or sort out the myriad of challenges that we are facing as a country is to go towards industrialisation and increase exports more than imports. We will have so many programmes or benefits if we are going to actualize the famous paper we put in Vision 2030. I am happy that there is a serious legislation which was given in the 1990s by the then President Daniel Moi when we started this programme, but now it has collapsed. We need to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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