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"content": "around the bush to say we are waiting for big things to come; but there is no other big thing other than this. I would prefer, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that we get industries that can assist so many families to get jobs, and in the evening, nobody asks you for food. I live in Eldoret and, once in a while, every morning at 6.00 a.m., go very close to Ken Knit and you will see the amount of traffic going in there; and you feel very good as a leader in Kenya when you see people going to jobs. In the evening at about 6.00 p.m., there are traffic jams and you have to create a separate lane that Sen. Karaba was talking about yesterday for them because there is hope here. Initially, they were competing with Raymond, which became Ropa, and it was good, and so many people were there. Go to the Export Processing Zone (EPZs) in Athi River; a number of these firms have closed down; the ones I have just mentioned. The only remaining ones are not able to move. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if this Senate can firmly say; let the Government try this--- We have tried to get jobs for the youth through road building projects, but you build it for one, two or three years and it is finished, then the job ends. If we can plough into these firms and then, thereafter, they are not going to close, you can be sure that we would have done two things; subsidies to revive the firms, and two, we assure them of a permanent market for their products. Again, if you look at the uniforms for our children, how many kids are in the education systems? There are so many, and all of them wear uniforms. How many of those products are made in Kenya? You may find that very little comes from home because of this trouble that we have here. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if we can revive the firms in the counties where these machines are, then our people can get jobs. Even the hotels here, where do they get their uniforms, bed sheets and blankets from? Most of them are imported yet we can produce all these items locally and they will be the best quality. Other countries are giving subsidies to such factories and, as a result, a lot of jobs are created and in return, a lot of taxes are paid by the people to the Government. Once again, we have gone into something called “people-sensitive” business, which they say is the mtumba bales and"
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