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    "id": 749132,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/749132/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
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    "content": "There is a time when we saw interesting items like tissue paper being trans-shipped from Brazil into Egypt and under the COMESA rules, into Kenya. Those items were being sold at always less than the normal value. The reason was to wipe out any paper industry in Kenya so that they can take over. Unless you have the basic policy, legal and institutional framework that will enable you to intervene in times of rain, like when you want to revive Panpaper, you cannot move. Last month, I saw my President at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) buying textile products at Kshs600 and Kshs100. We are saying that those are from the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and we are now opening them up. The idea is to try and revive and revamp the textile industry. You cannot do it if you have not sealed the loopholes for the cheap imports of textile products. You will never grow. You will be throwing good money after bad money if you keep on putting money in that industry, and you have not put in the safeguard measure. You have not put in the mechanism to prevent cheaper and fairly traded products of textiles into the country. This Bill seeks to give Kenyans the legal and institutional framework for intervening in those kinds of situations to enable us move on as country."
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