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    "id": 369485,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/369485/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Speaker, Sir. I would like to congratulate the Mover of this Motion, hon. Dr. Laboso, for a very important Motion. Most things happen without this Parliament knowing and this is one of the things that I think is happening without Parliament knowing. However, at least under the new Constitution, this House now has a very major role to play at any time this country is going to sign any international treaty under the Constitution. However, back to the Constitution, I have lived in Kenya now for the last 32 years and a couple of things have happened. Among them has been the going down of Raymonds, Rift Valley Textiles (RIVATEX) and Kisumu Cotton Mills (Kicomi). Thika used to be the hub of this country in industrial production but it is long gone. It no longer produces anything. Hon. Speaker, you know some time back in 1998/1999, the EU decided to block fish from Lake Victoria from going to Europe but allowed the fish from Uganda and Tanzania and yet the fish is from the same lake. Just to bring it closer home, recently we passed a very good Budget and we allocated so much money for industrial and enterprise development. When the President was here sitting on the seat that you are sitting on today, he said that he wants to ensure the local industry grows more than it has been doing before and that is why we are putting so much money in the Youth and Women Enterprise Development Funds. We are putting so much money in enterprise development. We are also, as we speak, trying to develop our Numerical Machining Complex (NMC) and so this Motion is not much about the EPA. EPA is just a"
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