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    "id": 232081,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/232081/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chepkitony",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13,
        "legal_name": "Lucas Kipkosgei Chepkitony",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to support this Motion. I fully support this Motion, which is long overdue. This country has been talking about this issue for a very long time. We have been agitating for establishment of free port in Mombasa for over ten years. Establishment of a free port in Mombasa will be good for this country. It will promote our commerce and industry. It will also create employment. It is high time this was done. We have already made progress. We are ahead of other countries in the region in many areas. One of them being the establishment of Export Processing Zones (EPZs), which were not there before. This has been successful and other countries are now coming to see how our industries in the EPZs function. So, we need to do the same towards the establishment of a free port in Mombasa. There are free ports elsewhere in the world, which are successful. There are no free ports in 4014 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 29, 2006 many countries in Africa. We will need to visit other countries that have free ports. The Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade has already visited some of the free ports in the world to see how they are functioning. So, we should establish this free port authority through an appropriate Bill later on. We will have to move ahead and formulate legislation on this issue of establishing a free port. We will need to do a lot, because when you establish a free port, you need to provide land for investors who will invest in industries and hotels around it. When we make Mombasa a free port, it will go along way in augumenting the already existing and flourishing tourism industry at the coast. We will have more tourists, who will also promote business and commerce. So, this will make more people come to our country. When they come for business, they will also be touriss. This means the tourism sector will grow and this will be good for our country. We need the tourism sector to grow, because it employs our people. We need to support it. We should set out modalities in line with what happens in other free ports in the world to make this proposed free port function smoothly. So, it will not be just an issue of establishing a free port but---"
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