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    "id": 1261548,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1261548/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "I would like to give a brief explanation to clauses 86 and 87 so that when we get to them, I do not need to explain again. I want to give an example. This amendment is on the Special Economic Zones Act. If we have a special economic zone in Molo, that is doing value addition of potatoes, with the current law as it is, those Special Economic Zones cannot buy those potatoes from that neighbouring place. Why? Because if they buy from that particular market, when they sell back to the market, they will have to pay import duty. Special Economic Zones are seen in the minds of the law as being an outside country. However, if the same processor of that project at that Special Economic Zone imports potatoes from Uganda, those potatoes are going to come without the import duty of 35 per cent. These proposals are supposed to incentivise our Special Economic Zones to buy raw materials from local areas and not necessarily import from Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) countries. If they imported from there, they will not pay import duty."
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