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    "id": 749133,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/749133/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2955,
        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
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    "content": "Employment is at the core of any Government’s endeavor. Not just the Kenyan Government, but the Ugandan, Zambian and American governments. At the core of it is to try to reduce the level of joblessness and increase employment for the citizens. Everyone is trying to do that always. But if you do not have these kinds of policy instruments, people who have those instruments available for them are able to keep their jobs intact as you lose your jobs. I have said it here before and I will repeat it today. For example, we are now building a huge building next to Parliament. You will find that in that construction, all the tiles are being imported from China. I dare say that this is because of lack of a policy intervention. It will require as Parliament to know, before we undertake this kind of a project which will cost more than Kshs1 billion, what is being sourced locally and what will be sourced from abroad. For example, if Saj Ceramics is producing tiles in the country, why would you be importing tiles form China? Most of the time, they will tell you that the tiles you are using have certain components that are not in your local ceramics. The Government would require that we stop that project first. Let us build the capacity of our local industries first so that they can supply that kind of a by-product. They would produce their tiles in China at Kshs60, sell here in Kenya at Kshs55, keeping people on jobs in China and make our people lose jobs in Kenya. This is what this law is trying to do. The WTO and the EAC law require that before you intervene in those circumstances, you must have a law, an institution enabled to conduct the investigations and you must notify WTO, EAC or COMESA. So, this law creates the Kenya Trade Remedies Agency whose mandate is to get instances where we know that other countries are selling their products in Kenya in an unfair way; below the normal value, with the main intention of pushing our local products out of the market and taking over that market. At the end of the day, the consumers get more products for less, but this consumer is the same one who is being pushed out of work. So, they will not have The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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