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    "id": 1255410,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1255410/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kuria",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary of Investments, Trade and Industry",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13160,
        "legal_name": "Moses Kuria",
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    "content": "As a result, we continue to lag behind our neighbors in terms of this very important item that we use every day in our homes. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what have I done? Initially, I said to protect those jobs from those five companies even if I do not agree with that monopoly. However, just not to be accused of messing up with people’s jobs, let me allow just one company, the Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC), to import duty free edible oil and see what happens. With only 170,000 jerrycans that have landed, the price has dropped from Kshs400 to Kshs218 for one litre of edible oil. Just from the fear of the edible oil that we have imported, that has not even been packed in the source countries. This is just to underscore how we are at the struggle of these companies, which were enjoying maximum protection from their shareholders and partners in the previous Government. They think that this Government can do the same. This Government campaigned on a platform of the common man, bottom-up and value chain. Today, we are working with partners from the same countries such as Indonesia. The President of Indonesia will be here in August to star a partnership to grow palm oil in Homa Bay, Kisumu, Migori, Busia, Lamu and Taita-Taveta and have income for our people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was discussing this with my good friend, Hon. Gladys Wanga, the Governor of Homa Bay county. A typical farmer in Ssese Island in Uganda has got a monthly income of Kshs142,000. The Governor informed me that the highest paid person in Homa Bay County is a teacher with Kshs40,000, yet an ordinary farmer who has not gone to school in Uganda, gets an equivalent of three times to that school teacher in Homa Bay. That is what we want to see. We want to create jobs and give income to the people. That is why this is a matter of high concern for this country, for our future and our food security. I submit."
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