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    "id": 393780,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/393780/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "October 10, 2013 SENATE DEBATES 36 Sen. Kajwang",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. First of all, I want to thank Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo for bringing this Motion. One thing I have found out is that the Senate is the place to be. There are things I wanted to debate while I was at the National Assembly for the last 15 years but had no chance to debate. However, everyday here, we are dealing with serious topical issues that can change lives in this country and this is one of them. I was talking to a serious investor in this country who deals in textiles, an Asian, and he told me: “Kajwang, there is no country that has ever developed without starting with cotton, whether you go to Britain, Liverpool or Manchester.” These are cities built on cotton. If you go to India, you will find that it is built on cotton. If you go to America, you will find the situation is the same. We are now talking about China which is also built on cotton. There is only one country that was being built on cotton but restrained, and that is the East African Community (EAC). There is a time when if you bought a dress for your wife from Korea, you would be divorced. There is no lady who would want to dress in a Korean dress. That would mean that you were looking down upon her. They used to say, at our place, do not bring me a dress from “ Koria” . They used to call it “ Koria” . The only clothes that were imported from Japan were those for burying dead people and these clothes are still referred to as “ japan” up to now. In our language, we turned it to mean that we were using it for panoring the dead guys. This means that there was a time when Japan was so far behind that we would not use their clothes for dressing. There was a time when India was far behind that we did not import anything from there especially textile. Our clothes used to come from Jinja, the best quality clothes in the world. In fact, the other quality clothes in the world at that time that were competing with this one were the American Khaki. We destroyed anything else that came in. So, you cannot just develop without a policy that protects an industry. You cannot open yourself to the world and hope that you will survive when you are a small fish. In fact, in our region, when you are a small fish, you run away from mbuta because the"
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