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    "id": 1219358,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1219358/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Our problems in this country are unemployment and trade, which means lack of foreign exchange. I thank Hon. Elachi for the Motion because it is addressing these two issues. If we increase our foreign exchange, we will be able to solve a lot of our problems and our foreign exchange can only be increased if we manufacture and earn that foreign exchange. We are told that the cost of manufacturing in Kenya is prohibitive. It is too expensive that many companies migrate from Kenya to other countries thus increasing unemployment which we are already suffering from. We need to arrest the situation. We have to do everything possible to reduce the cost of manufacturing and production. My colleagues have mentioned it – and I strongly repeat– that the cost of electricity is one of the worst problems we are suffering from. My colleagues have mentioned it, and we should think along that direction, that we need to segregate manufacturing areas and give them their own electricity at almost no cost. The Government can absorb that. The Government has a policy of subsidising production. If we go that way, we will be giving a chance to the manufacturers at a low cost of production. They will therefore find that what they export is in demand, cheap and can increase our production. Increasing production will need more raw materials for production. I have in mind the cotton industry which is ailing to a point of near death. I come from a cotton growing zone. A lot of efforts have been made but sometimes there is no market for cotton yet we buy clothes every day from other countries. If we want cotton to be grown, we must ensure we give it a market like the EPZ that will need it. The EPZ is the most fertile export for production of cotton lint and the rest of them. We need to do everything 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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