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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we know the politics of Multinational Corporations in this country. They have literally destroyed the African businesses. Today, if we refuse to sign this agreement and in turn we do not export goods to America and Europe, they will come down. We must discuss debt issues in this House because sometimes we are given loans which have stringent measures and this country pays that money for many years. Are we ready to pay for the debts which were incurred wrongly? Those are issues we must think about. We must think about our bread and butter. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are three things we must fix in this country; agriculture, security and health. Those are the key priorities in this country, but are we addressing them? If you do not have food in your stomach certainly, you are not fixing the security situation. Our agriculture does not look good. The whole of Kiambu is becoming a concrete jungle. It is an estate and agriculture is finished. We are burning our debts in small shambas meaning that there will be no mechanization. Very soon there will be nowhere to farm. Is our sugar industry competitive? It does not follow that when you have one acre producing less than what is required in international standards or you have cane maturing on one acre in 18 months instead of six months, you are in trouble. So, our agricultural sector must be revolutionalised. Our industries must be revolutionalised. Our system must completely change. We must understand what the problem in this country is. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you look at cases in Kenya, there are 250,000 companies out there in Africa which are performing. Kenya has the best company in the name of Safaricom. It is number 71. The rest are either from South Africa, Nigeria, Angola and others. It means that despite us blowing our trumpets that East Africa is an economic power house, we are not doing much. Today Kenya should have been like Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa. We would have been way ahead of those countries but all along we have been arguing within ourselves and thinking about politics. We have been fighting among ourselves about leadership positions in political parties. There have been wrangles, wrangles and wrangles and those wrangles have kept this country suffering."
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