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    "id": 1382536,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1382536/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi West, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Nguna",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. On the onset, I thank Hon. Emaase Mary, the Mover of this Motion. Kenya was one of the biggest cotton producers when we started this industry. I very well recall from our history that this industry used to support over 500,000 households. As one of the crops that is labour intensive during planting, weeding, and harvesting, the cotton industry will create employment in our country if revived. Our youth will be fully involved in the production and other processes involved in cotton growing. The Mover of the Bill raised issues like the creation of cooperatives and boards all the way from national to county levels. This will create massive employment opportunities in many sectors. Reviving this industry, which was killed by the importation of mitumba and other old clothes, will enable our industries to generate revenue for our government in taxes that we will be paying locally. When you grow an industry somewhere, we experience tremendous development and growth in all our counties, especially in our arid and semi-arid areas where cotton growing thrives. We can attribute many advantages to this. I support this Bill. There are very many advantages that we can attribute to this. That is why I am supporting the Bill. I encourage Hon. Emaase to go beyond this and ensure proper implementation in all the counties, especially the arid and semi-arid counties. We will see many benefits. I cannot mention all of them. However, I know it will be a source of income and employment for our young people and those who will farm it. It will also increase our revenue collection as a Government and serve as a growth development tool in our region. This one will have more benefits than we can imagine. With those few remarks, I support."
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