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    "id": 196775,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/196775/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wathika",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Public Works",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 152,
        "legal_name": "Dickson Wathika Mwangi",
        "slug": "dickson-wathika"
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. We need to encourage many young men and women to take up professions like accountancy, so that they can contribute positively to the development of this great nation. We have a lot of small-scale businesses referred to as kiosks, especially in Nairobi and other urban centres. We, as Parliament, need to make sure that these people access cheap accounting services, so that they can put their books in order for them to access capital from financial institutions. This Bill is very important for this nation. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I serve as the Member of Parliament for Makadara, I intend to galvanise the youth and encourage them to engage in economic activities that will improve their living standards. Therefore, I want to believe that together we, as Parliament, must very serious look into the issues affecting the youth. Another thing I would like to mention is the recent land clashes in some parts of the country. Every time there is an election, politicians provoke anger and animosity among communities. So, how can we stop politicians from provoking anger against other communities that are their neighbours or who live with them? Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to propose that, we, as Parliament, should seriously consider large-scale farming instead of cultivating individual small portions of land owned by Kenyans in the countryside. Maybe, we can amalgamate those pieces of land, come up with commercial and residential centres and give people shares depending on the acreage of their pieces of land, so that we undertake to support large-scale commercial farming. In my opinion, such an undertaking will help this country in two ways: First, nobody will ever incite another person because of a piece of land. The pieces of land will have been amalgamated and doing large- scale commercial farming. Secondly---"
}