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    "id": 135472,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/135472/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a Ministry whose mandate includes formulating industrialization policy. It is cross-cutting and it will touch many other Ministries. I hope and believe that in their operations, this Ministry will develop sufficient capacity to influence the thinking, planning and the operations of key Ministries that are critical to industrialization. To industrialize today, one does not need to invent anything. Indeed, as late-comers to this industrialization programme, we have the easiest of things. We are not going to invent the lead machine, the wheel, the concrete mixers or anything. The technology is there and is available. We can get it and use it to industrialize our country. What one expects this Ministry to do is to agitate and create an enabling environment for industrialization. We know the challenges that this country faces including the current drought and shortage of energy. But we know that there are countries that have industrialized even in deserts. So, we must formulate policy on how this country can have enough land for industries to be built. If you come to this country and go to any town even in the little towns in the villages, there is no single one which you can be given a half an acre of land to build any industry of any sort even a small assembly for bicycles. I think this Ministry in its quest to achieve its goals, must influence the Ministry of Lands to compulsorily acquire land as it is required under the Constitution, to set aside for industrialization."
}