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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the chance to contribute to this very important Bill. I join hands with all the Members of Parliament to support this Bill. I think it has come at the right time or even late. We should have done this long time ago. I thank Hon. Ochieng for thinking ahead for all Kenyans and doing his job as a Member of Parliament to safeguard the future of this country. The first thing that any country that wants to grow or wants to move from a third world country to a developing nation and a first class nation needs to do is to find ways of empowering the people, make sure it creates jobs for the youth and find ways to make sure that the farmers are empowered to produce their own food. Unfortunately, our nation is not going that way. I have raised issues here before that our nation has become a nation of dependency on foreign countries. We have become a nation of depending on other people to do work and then we go and import the work. A government that cares about its people is one that makes sure that it becomes a self-sustaining country and a country that makes its own food and produces its own things. By doing that, you are able to create jobs for your people. Industrialisation has moved nations from third world countries to developed countries. What China did as a nation was because there was once a leader in China that thought and said: “We need to become a nation of industrialisation and a nation that cares about the industries that produce things and sell things to other countries.” As we go now, our nation does not envision that. Our nation is not going that 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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