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    "id": 1254457,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1254457/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Aldai, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Marianne Kitany",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I stand to support the Finance Bill. I specifically want to address two issues on the Bill. One is Section 72 on the Export and Investment Promotion Levy that is proposed to be imposed on products that need to be manufactured in the country. The unemployment rate is very high in our constituencies. Unless we address this issue, there is no way we are going to get employment for our youth. We need to create employment. We need to get companies manufacturing in our country. The cement factories, for example, need to manufacture more from our country as opposed to importing clinker and coming to finish the product in Kenya. If we can convert the limestone that we have, we get levy from our quarries and get that limestone converted into clinker to be used in our factories, we would have employed a 100 or 200 more Kenyans that are looking for employment. In the sectors of roads and iron, we know that a lot of iron is imported. We need to manufacture iron. We know companies that manufacture right now and the number of employees that they have go into thousands. By creating this levy, we are encouraging employment in our country. The second aspect that I want to raise is on the Housing Fund. Many issues have been raised. I want to thank our President for being futuristic. Our population is growing. We were 40 million the other day, and today, we are about 50 million. By 2030, we will be talking about 60 or 70 million Kenyans. If we do not think about where these Kenyans are going to live in 2030, then I think we are not being futuristic. Let us look at our forefathers who thought about our Independence, fought for us and today we are enjoying the kind of freedom that we have from that fight. Today, let us look at our employment. In school, we were taught about three basic commodities, namely, food, shelter and clothing. The other day, the Azimio people were carrying sufurias, but now we have food in the"
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