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    "id": 1456532,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1456532/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "If you listen to people speak about the creation of jobs, we said that the bottom-up economic transformation agenda is anchored on job creation. During debate on the Finance Bill, we tried to speak to Kenyans and inform them that some of the measures that were in the Finance Bill spoke to job creation. Unfortunately, it was difficult to get that message across to Kenyans under the circumstances. When we spoke about the manufacture of diapers and sanitary towels, we were simply trying to safeguard local manufacturing. It was to ensure that our industries are thriving to create jobs locally and that the industries are generating revenues in this economy. Not exporting jobs or our forex to other countries in the Far East as we import. I am glad that I heard the President speak to it this afternoon. As Kenyans, he said it is time we had a conversation whether we want to make our economy one large supermarket that merchandises manufactured products to create jobs in other economies outside ours. We must decide whether we want to make our country a manufacturing hub that can manufacture sanitary towels, diapers and all those other things."
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