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    "id": 281589,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/281589/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muriithi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Industrialization",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 91,
        "legal_name": "Ndiritu Muriithi",
        "slug": "ndiritu-muriithi"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, today, because we still have duties on grains that were designed in colonial times, food is expensive. I have heard my colleague, the hon. Minister for Finance quipping frustrations and asking: “Why are we importing eggs?” We were importing eggs because the raw materials that go into the production of feeds that feed the chicken that produce the eggs are expensive. They are expensive because we have colonial duties designed during the time of Lord Delamere; and that have no basis in modern social economic structure of this country. These are the questions of our times. Though I agree we are bound by constitutional timelines, we are also bound--- We have a responsibility as a House to ensure that we make the best legislation possible. The question of devolution is the question that will allow us, once and for all, to move from the politics of ethnicity and to move from the feelings that resource allocation is based on ethnicity. Those questions will be resolved by us making the best possible law on county governments and public financial management. Therefore, I want, in the strongest terms and, perhaps, most passionate terms possible, support this Motion to extend time. Thank you."
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