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"content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you throw your door ajar and allow all types of goods to come into this country, you will realise that you will end up selling their products. A case in point is Nigeria. Nigeria has been importing sugar and cement and today it is a net exporter of cement and sugar and it will be one of the biggest economies in Africa. It is going to beat South Africa. This Motion is about Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). We do not need those things with the Europeans and Americans. What we need to do is to be very competitive. The question is: Are we adding value to agriculture and industries? If a country wants to develop it has two options namely, through service industry if you do not have the capital base or through the real industrialisation. This country has been having problems. Our industries have not been competitive because of power. Tariffs on power are very high. Power outages are very high. You will realise that our industries cannot be competitive. We are unable to be in tandem with the realities in other countries."
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