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    "id": 471195,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/471195/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am ashamed that in this time and age, a country is making a law with an aim of singularly regulating scrap metal. It is a shame! This Parliament gave a very good budget this year and last year to the Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise on how we want to spur growth and build the industry. We want to ensure that this country moves from the Third World to a First World. One of the things that I want to see the Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise doing is to tell us how they want to build our Kenyan steel industry. How are they working with the mining industry? Are we working with the Mining Ministry? Are we seeing that we are able to even discover iron ore and whatever it is that could be used to develop this industry? We should be talking about things we produce; not by-products. We are talking about by-products--- Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are talking about the by-products. Kenya does not produce any cars or anything and, therefore, we are amending a law to regulate things which are being produced elsewhere. Why do we not talk about making a law about things we are producing here and how we will manage the by-products? Why do we not develop the metal industry in the country first and then those scrap metals becomes by-products? We are talking about cutting down on bureaucracy, public institutions and the wage bill? We do not need a council for this matter, but a committee comprising hon. Members from the various Ministries. We do not need a council. You know a council comes with so many things. Some of the issues referred in this Bill are about the council; how members will be appointed, how they will leave office; etcetera . We just need a committee comprising of an officer from Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), another one from KEBs and KAM. They will advise the Cabinet Secretary on how to work on this and the rest are criminal offences. This Bill is intended to create criminal offences and then we could easily rule on it in the Penal Code. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have heard my colleagues talk about the guard rails on our roads and the cars. The guard rails are being removed because of lack of 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."
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