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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to record, again, for the Houseâs benefit that, indeed, we have started interacting with Parliament, especially on EPA. I recall that earlier in the year, we actually had our workshop in Mombasa with Members of the Parliamentary Committee, where we went through exactly what is happening with the EPA. We hope to continue with dialogue. I am very encouraged. Tomorrow and on Saturday, Parliament will be engaging with the wider private sector as part of our initiative to bring together the law makers and the private sector, so that people look at the private sector from different lenses than they have previously done. Different people look at it differently, but I am very happy that this House is now supportive of the private sector. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Mrs. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona did raise the issue of diversification of our products, including diversifying fish farming. If we had fish being farmed across the entire country, perhaps, the issue of Migingo would not even have arisen, because there would be fish everywhere. I thank her for that insight. Hon. Balala brought up the issue of the need for order and sanity at the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce, which we are working on with the various factions while respecting their legal personality. We are working to bring sanity to that organisation. The whole world, in terms of trade, should actually be dealing with the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce. We saw a very strong delegation of the USA Chamber of Commerce coming to discuss business with us. They were asking for their Kenyan counterparts, and one wondered which faction wound emerge. One day, you would find that there is a group in office. By the time you get to the office, you find that another group has broken into the office, thrown out the other group and installed itself in it. This is something that has to stop. We are working on a new constitution for them and, eventually, we will have to come here for some legal mechanisms on how to bring sanity to that sector. It is important that we have some mechanisms that will bind traders from the grassroot level all the way to the national level, so that it can be called the Kenya Chamber of Commerce and Industry, rather than just have groups of people who want to usurp power from one another. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to recognise the input by Mr. Nyagah, and for highlighting the focus on Kenya through the AGOA forum that we had last week. I know that the issue is yet to be addressed fully through the Question that was brought to the House by Mr. Mungatana. But I want to assure this House and Kenyans that, indeed, the effort that we put in that one week was not in vain. The more than 3,000 delegates who came to Nairobi had a very different impression of Kenya. This was very evident from the Americans: That, indeed, Kenya is"
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