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    "id": 188499,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/188499/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muriithi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Industrialisation",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 91,
        "legal_name": "Ndiritu Muriithi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Vote of the Ministry of Lands. Let me start by congratulating the Minister and his team. The Minister has shown interest to deal with critical issues. I think this is what is required, if really we are to be improve land policy in this country. As I support this Motion, I want to urge the Minster and his team to do a couple of things. First of all, the core question of physical planning; the process of physical planning is taking inordinately long time. As one speaker said yesterday, investors approach many local authorities to July 23, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2061 get land to build factories. In many instances, local authorities provide such authority and allocation but the Directorate of Physical Planning takes a bit of time to approve those requests to investors. I think the Minister and his team are up to the task to speed up this process. In 2003, a company by the name Africa Biomedics requested the local authority in my constituency in Rumuruti to grant them leave to put up a factory. From that time up to date, the matter has been pending before the Directorate of Physical Planning. This has forced the investor to look for a more responsive environment to invest his money there. So, I urge the Minister and his team to ensure that these processes are speeded up. In fact, we should be responsive to investors in this country in order to enable us realise the Vision 2030. With those very many words, I beg to support."
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