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    "id": 615559,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/615559/?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",
        "slug": "jimmy-angwenyi"
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute to this important Motion. I support this Motion upfront. I thank the Committee concerned as well as the Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resource for coming up with this kind of proposal. Indian Ocean is being wasted instead of being utilised to generate employment and income for our people. We have some of the best beaches in the world, yet we do not earn from them as much as those other countries which have them. If you compare our beaches in Malindi, Mombasa and Lamu to the beaches in Malaysia, the latter are not beaches. They are only rocks, yet Malaysia receives 26 million visitors in a year, which is much higher than the population of 23 million people in Malaysia. The amount of money they make is enough to fund the Kenyan Budget. If you go to Mauritius, it does not have beaches. Theirs are cliffs. However, they make a lot of money from their fishing industry and tourism. People go there to see those cliffs. They see fishing being done and they go back. Mauritius makes more money than Kenya. It receives in excess of 1.5 million visitors per year, yet Kenya cannot receive that number of people and we have such long---"
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