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    "id": 1554454,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1554454/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, MCCP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "content": "I support the Bill to the extent that we want to spur local manufacturing. I request the Committee move further and develop regulations akin to those on motorcycles. If you are removing duty on transformer parts, it is because you do not have local capacity, but that cannot be perpetual. You have to provide a certain period. As Hon. Murugara said, if we have copper in the country yet we are importing parts made of copper from China, we need to exploit our copper so that in five years, we can make those parts and not need to import them anymore. That way, we will be looking at the economy holistically. We should not ever import parts; we should explore our minerals and make our own parts to retire some of the tariffs as we build local capacity. Most importantly, I want to understand whether the principal object of this amendment includes 'parts' or whether it is just about imported full transformers."
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