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    "id": 482442,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/482442/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "incentives so that investors can establish some of these industries in this country. Imagine if in the next two or three years we were to create more than 100,000 jobs. Will Kenyans not be happier? Sure, they will! We are establishing special economic zones, but it is taking too long for them to take off. The tax measures should be encouraging. People should set up industries, including a free trade zone in Mombasa. That way, we will create jobs for our people and we will also create wealth. We could even raise the tax base of our revenue by creating wealth. I heard one of my friends saying that we should enhance our Competition Authority and then he went ahead to say that we should stop Safaricom from expanding so that others can catch up with it. What kind of competition is that? In the first place, we want to encourage companies to expand so that they create jobs and wealth. Fortunately, Safaricom is owned 65 per cent by Kenyans. We should actually protect Safaricom! I get shocked when our Members try to attack our own local company in favour of foreigners. I also heard my friend and my student, hon. Mbadi--- I went to school before him because I taught him. You do not object to anything that is going to be helpful to Kenyans. Just imagine that old worker in some factory taking time off to visit Mombasa or Naivasha! There are so many people in Nairobi who do not know where Lukenya is. We need to encourage people to visit our country. We should not be objecting to that. We should be encouraging Kenyans to travel within the country and learn about our country. On Saturday I visited Mathare Constituency. From what I saw there, Mathare should not be part of Kenya. The living environment is terrible. We should raise measures that can create better environment for our people to inhabit. In Mathare Constituency, there are no roads. Hakuna vichochoro. Where sewage is being led, that is where you walk along. There are only two toilets for a village of 200 people. You queue for three hours before you can get to the toilet. That is why our tax incentives should be such that since Nairobi produces 40 per cent, some of it should be taken to Mathare Constituency."
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