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    "id": 327586,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/327586/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the export of scrap metal is not only prohibited in Kenya, but is also prohibited in the entire East Africa Community (EAC) Region. The one-off approval was coordinated by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industrialization, and to my understanding that was it. If there is any continuing export of scrap metal, then, it is illegal, a smuggling exercise and if the hon. Member has any information that can help, we welcome the information. However, I also take this opportunity to encourage the Department of Customs to be strict in enforcing the EAC ban on the export of scrap metal. I am equally aware of the harm that scrap metal dealers have done particularly to our roads by vandalizing road rail guards and road signs so that they can trade in this business. We even have had a situation where a whole railway was vandalized by people removing slippers and the rails themselves to sell to dealers as scrap metal. That is why the entire EAC came together in order to protect the development of the nascent steel industry but more importantly to protect our installations which have been the target of vandals."
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