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    "id": 1515228,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1515228/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to first and foremost support this Motion on Consideration of Nominees for Appointment as Cabinet Secretaries. I want to thank the President for taking his time and getting the right candidates for these positions. I have a view that the three candidates… I want to enumerate in particular, Hon. Mutahi Kagwe who I happened to interact with prior to his appointment. I find him as a very strong candidate for this appointment and feel the performance he displayed during his tenure as the Cabinet Secretary for Health will follow suit. I wish to let him know that we all look forward to him putting the agriculture sector in order. We want to see the aspiration of the President of ensuring that sugarcane farmers earn bonus fulfilled. We want the brokers in between who want to affect the chain of distribution in the agriculture sector dismantled. Hon. Mutahi Kagwe must put his foot down and ensure we do not get fertiliser that is doubtable. Let the Government’s agenda be to give us fertiliser at Ksh2,500 or even lower be implemented so that we get the right fertiliser for our input. Marketing of our products in terms of how and where to sell them should be widely done so that we ensure that what is good is implemented. Hon. Speaker, we are now implementing the Sugar Act, and I would like to request Hon. Mutahi Kagwe that should this House consider and approve his nomination, he should make sure that it concludes what has been started so that we make the sugar sector independent, and get the Act implemented. Speaking about Hon. Lee Kinyanjui, I had the privilege of working with him during the previous campaigns, and I found him a very astute member of any organisation. Him having been a Governor, I thank him and want to tell him that the docket of Investment, Trade and Industry that is being bestowed on him is not small. It is a docket that balloons the economy of our country because all that we manufacture must get to their destination, and all that is possible to invest especially for any small-scale person who relies on this docket. We want to see him work hand-in-hand with the National Treasury to open up sectors that we need to supply our products. Let us open up the manufacturing sector so that we do not just say we want our youth to get employment. Let our youth get job opportunities and especially where foreigners and those people with money can invest in good industries to add value to our economy. As an agricultural economy, we must add value to our produce, and that is where Hon. Lee Kinyanjui is going to come in. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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