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    "id": 482096,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/482096/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "The cost of doing business like hon. (Ms.) Emaase said must be brought down. Our labour must be cheap and we have to ask ourselves: What did the countries that have transformed their economies within one go do? Look at the BRICS; Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Look at countries like Singapore. Look at Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. Ask yourself: What have they done to transform their economies and move to middle income levels within two generations? They have done exactly what I have said. Make sure that there is cheap labour; make sure that there is well trained personnel which Kenya has done well in exporting; make sure that there is infrastructure development of road network, railways and harbours; make sure that crime is low; insecurity which has defeated us in Kenya. Make sure that workers are motivated. These countries have laid down rules and they have produced. They have become manufacturers. In fact, manufacturing has shifted from Europe to South East Asia and the other countries in Latin America. That is why these are the fastest growing economies because they embraced manufacturing and not just farming. They build from farming; did value addition; they moved from there to the next level and today they are the ones who are lending money to European countries because they have a lot of reserves."
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