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    "id": 444613,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "make the best cars; examples are Lamborghini, Monte Cario, Veyron, Ferraris and so on. They specialize in the manufacture of these very beautiful cars. They also prize them very well. So, the Italians are sure that they will get money. Look at other countries. You need to do a SWOT analysis to find out what is important for Kenya and what we can do better than others, so as to move to the next level in industrialization. The West lost economic dominance to the East, which has countries like China, India, Malaysia and others, because they said that they did not want to do manufacturing. They said that they only wanted to engage in the service industry, banking. Manufacturing flourished where there was cheap labour. Today, it is countries like China that are investing in manufacturing in the East and the West is now trying to get manufacturing back. Let us be strategic in our economic planning. If we say that we are going to invest in agriculture we should not just invest in irrigation and then we rely on the water of Athi River to do so. The water of Athi River gets so low during the dry season, yet you want to irrigate the lower part of the country, which is about one million acres. Where will the water come from? After all, this water is polluted from Nairobi and the coffee farms around. This should have been done in Tana River; also we should have thought of gravity irrigation, so that the cost of moving water is low. When we do things the same way they were done 30 years ago, we are unlikely to get better results. However, because we have an able Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, we will move forward. I am sure he is listening to what we are saying. The big infrastructure programmes that have been budgeted for are a good thing. I am talking of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) and roads. We want the Uhuru administration to follow the footsteps of former Presidents Kibaki and Moi, so that it does more on roads and education. Moi was one of the best Presidents of this country because during his time cost of living was very low. There was a promise that a fertilizer plant would be established in Webuye at the Pan Paper Mills premises. However, recently, I saw the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture saying that it would be put up in Eldoret. I am sure somebody else will come and say that it will be put up in Kitui, where I come from. It should be clear where that factory will be situated; we need it as soon as yesterday. We need our own factory, so that we produce cheap fertilizer. This Budget and Appropriations Committee ought to have factored in the money for retired teachers, retirement benefits of the former Prime Minister, former Vice- President and former MPs who are languishing in poverty – we see them along corridors here. Next time you sit to plan a budget make sure you include in it benefits for the former MPs, who are really suffering, and those teachers who went to court and got orders for payment of their money. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as Kamba community, we want to say this: General Mulinge served this country exemplarily and we want him to get a State funeral. That is when you will respect us as a community. He is a leader who served this country very well. We do not want people to dilly dally – we want him to get a State funeral and it is only me who can tell you that. There has been a lot of insecurity in the country. I send my sincere condolences to the people of Mpeketoni, Wajir, Mandera, Baringo, Mombasa and to other places where The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}