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    "id": 180350,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 122,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
        "slug": "patrick-olweny"
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    "content": " It is awkward, Mr. Minister! So, we need to do something about our roads! While the Minister for Finance is trying to give incentives, the Ministry of Roads and Public Works is not giving us adequate incentives by doing something about our roads for the purpose of economic growth. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to put up buildings, we need land. To put up 3366 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 11, 2008 industries and factories, we need land, particularly in the urban centres! The price of land in urban centres is terrible! It is discouraging the investors. You have to spend so many millions to get one- eighth of an acre of land in town to put up a small building. What if you want to put up a factory? Can you imagine the amount of money an investor has to part with to buy land? In fact, in other countries, investors are given land for free, so that they can put up whatever factories they want to put up on that land. So, I think our Government needs to do something about the price of land. It is too artificial! After all, that land belongs to God. Why should you price it that expensively? You just get land free from God and you make it that expensive by millions! Lastly, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let our professionals and experts who are taking care of our economy watch out for the economic crisis. I think that thing is spreading like bush fire; the problem that we are seeing in the USA, Europe, China and it is going to Japan. It is a bug that is spreading like bush fire! So, Mr. Minister, tell your people to watch out for that, so that it does not catch up with us. It may catch up with us. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to support."
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