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    "id": 583292,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ongoro",
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        "legal_name": "Elizabeth Ongoro Masha",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary, Speaker, Sir. After such an eloquent and elaborate contribution by the Mover, I was tempted to simply bow and sit down, but allow me to say a few things. I remember when I was in kindergarten there were many attempts this country went through trying to industrialise. All of us here can remember the Nyayo Pioneer Car and many other attempts. However, we have always gotten it wrong because of the approach. This country cannot develop in any manner if we remain a consumer economy. All you need to do is to station yourself in one of our airports just for one day and see what Kenyans carry coming back into the country. They are heavy laden with all manner of goods from abroad. On the other hand, when foreigners are leaving our country, they carry small bags containing curving of an elephant or a lion. So, we are really just a consumer economy. This is the most lethal kind of poverty. It has a way of creating a vicious circle of a consumer mentality that makes us to just keep consuming and importing. It is a pity that we export our raw materials at almost one per cent of the price of whatever we import back. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Mover has already given us statistics. I will not belabour on them. The fun of consuming tea labeled English tea has always really annoyed me. It is simply Kenyan tea which is exported to England, repackaged, exported all over the world, and sold to us at a hundred times more the price of our own tea. This is because over the years, we have not laid a lot of emphasis and resources into attempting to turn this economy into an industrialized economy. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 3 is on the objectives and intent of this Bill. It talks about promoting and facilitating industrial development in our counties. Now that the attempt to have a national approach has failed over the years, this synthesized approach is the best because it goes further to promote and facilitate industrial development in the counties. It goes further to decentralize this approach, not just at the county level, but also at the constituency and ward level. It is very interesting. This is a winning approach because I believe that every county in this nation has raw material. If we properly managed our resources and did the necessary research, every county would have something to export. The fallacy of selling or exporting our raw materials almost for free and then importing the finished product of the same, at almost a hundred times more, cannot help our economy to flourish. This is actually turning this nation into a beggar nation. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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