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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you look at what is happening globally, you will realise that Kenya’s market is very small. The only way Kenya can improve--- Very soon Ethiopia and Tanzania are going to overtake us. Why are they overtaking us? They are growing at a very fast rate. They are changing their economic structures. They are changing their industrial policies. Ethiopia has overtaken Kenya in horticultural exports and soon it is going to overtake us in literally every other aspect. We have been an economic powerhouse but very soon we are going to be overtaken. We do not need to beg the Europeans. We do not need to beg the Americans. The in thing is to sell our products within Africa but there are hurdles in Africa. There is an infrastructural problem. There are issues which are to do with governance. Singapore has the best governance in the world such that they are able to attract all the industries in the world. They give them the best laws and concession and that is the only way they can improve themselves but if you look at Kenya, we are just inward looking. We are having a problem of unemployment in this country. Today, teachers are on strike. Tomorrow you will hear civil servants and others. However, are we able to move? Are we able to create wealth? Are we able to inject capital? What are we doing about this young population which is going to school? We are having about 200,000 graduates every year. Do we"
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