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    "id": 383895,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, you have rightly observed that it was not a point of order. I am just giving examples of how we mismatch our programmes. Look at a country like Thailand. They came up with a policy called “one village, one product” so that each village cuts out a niche product for the market. Thailand has made tremendous progress. Look at a country like Vietnam. Vietnam was nearly bombed to extinction by Americans in the 1960s but in the last 15 years, Vietnam has been recording 20 per cent to 30 per cent economic growth with a population of about 70 million in the last 15 years. They are 98 per cent connected to water and power. Right now Vietnam is at par with Brazil in coffee production. That is coffee that they pick from Kenya as Ruiru 11. They are now the second largest producer and exporter of coffee in the world after Brazil. These are examples we can pick from. No economy can generate employment without focusing on three things; agriculture, industrialization and construction. Those are the areas where economies generate employment. I am not talking about the current Government because it has been in power for a very short time. I am talking about successive governments. They constantly pay lip service to agriculture. They constantly pay lip service to industrialization. They The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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