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    "id": 630465,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/630465/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Francis Waititu",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Munyua Waititu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to eulogise the passing on of Hon. George Mwicigi. This is a man I knew for a long time. Being from Juja Constituency, I can be a witness and say that he was one of the directors of the East African Bag and Cottage industry, where Kenya produced a lot of bags. This is the man who created the EA Bag and Cottage firm. In those days, Juja Constituency was known because of those bags. This is a constituency where there is no tribalism and all members of the various tribes live there. It is the constituency with a high number of tribes. Today, that factory has been closed. We have lost 6,000 to 8,000 jobs because the person who took it over from Mwicigi, an Indian, and I am not against Indians, closed the factory. The Government should think of buying that factory and reviving it, so that we can produce bags instead of importing and build on what the late George Mwicigi had tried to put up for this country. If we do this, we will have done something. Being in the Departmental Committee of Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives, I have gone round and seen what he started and what the Member for Gatanga has said is quite true. On behalf of the people of Juja Constituency and on my own behalf, I say pole sana to the people of Gatanga."
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