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    "id": 306398,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I suspect that my good friend has just walked in. I said that the Trade Licensing Act was repealed. So, my Ministry does not license any trader or business person in this country. Even if the Act had not been repealed, the licensing of traditional medicines, or any other medicines for that matter, would be the purview of another Ministry, and not the Ministry of Trade. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was dealing with the issue raised by the Member for Mathira. I was urging caution. We need to be careful and guarded in the language we use rest we ignite unhelpful issues that can undermine even the interests of the thousands of Kenyans living and working in other countries. The economies of this region, including those of the Republic of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi run on Kenyans. We have seen Kenyans owning even kiosks out there. I am not justifying the Chinese hawking on our streets. I am simply saying that we need to be guarded in our language, as leaders. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Member for Keiyo North asked whether Kenyans just go to China to imports goods. They do both. They take their wares there to sell and get wares from there to come and sell in our country. So, it is a two-way traffic. I agree with the Member for Vihiga that the cotton industry needs to be revived, but the truth is that it is dead. We have the new Cotton Board, which is trying to revive the industry. I saw some bits and pieces of money in the Budget. I hope that the industry will be revived but, as it is being revived, business must go on. I also want to inform him that the death of the cotton industry has allowed the flooding of mitumba clothes in this country, and there is no evidence that any mitumba clothes come from China. We know where mitumba clothes come from. Mr. Speaker, Sir, back to the Member for Mathioya, I want to encourage him, having been a graduate of the aviation industry himself; that if he goes out there, he will appreciate that Emirates Airline alone has employed over 800 Kenyan boys and girls as in-flight crew. I have seen Kenyan pilots in various international airlines. So, why should"
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