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    "id": 523315,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/523315/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "In the United States, they have a principle of ‘Buy American, grow America’. We need to apply the same principle in our country. If you buy Kenyan products, you grow Kenya. Many countries set aside a quota of procurement in the procurement laws to make sure that their countries move forward. Nothing stops the National Assembly from setting aside a mandatory quota of goods and services to be, in the first instance, procured from our country. Only in the second instance, where we do not locally have the goods or services required, do we procure from another country. If we are to develop our country, there are no two ways about it. We have to buy Kenyan to grow Kenya. We have to buy our rice from Mwea Irrigation Scheme and buy tea from my county and other counties that grow tea. We have to buy coffee and dairy products locally. We have to commit ourselves to procuring goods from our country. This is really a matter of personal choice. If you go to our supermarkets today, you have to literally go out of your way to buy Kenyan products. We are swamped by commodities from other countries. So, those of us who care about the growth of our country, we have to buy commodities that are locally produced. Hon. Speaker, we have to revive industries to ensure that we locally produce the commodities that we need. Cotton is a good example. We have to procure goods from Kenya. There would be no reason for us to have a Kshs1.8 trillion Budget, out of which Kshs600 billion is available to procurement but which procures goods from other countries and not from our country. It is only through procuring goods locally, and sometimes even assembling some of the items locally, that we can develop this country."
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