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    "id": 749259,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/749259/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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        "id": 1356,
        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
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    "content": "I wrote a proposal on the establishment of a price controlled mechanism, a board that will sit down and decide the cost of production vis-a-vis the availability of those products and come up with the selling price the same way we have price controls for fuel. If we did not have price controls for fuel, the cartels would be killing this country. You would not be driving your car now because the price of fuel would be very high. That has been managed by a controlled mechanism that we have to control the price. If we want the best for this country, we must come up with ways of controlling those people. If we let these people be, they will control us and that is what is happening in this nation. We have let this nation be controlled by people and businessmen who go to China, get cheap things and bring them to this country. I have visited China and there are two production systems. There is production of things going to America and UK and there is a production system of things coming to Kenya and Africa. The quality of things coming to Kenya is the poorest. The quality of things coming to Kenya looks like those ones going to America, but it is not of the same quality. For example, if you buy an Iphone in Kenya the probability of getting a cheap fake Iphone is 90 per cent. That is why I do not buy phones from here because you will end up getting a phone that is cheap. It might even be expensive or look nice but, after two days, it is dead. We have trained our people to think of cheap things. Cheap is expensive. That is what we are struggling with and that is what is killing our nation. We want cheap things. Cheap is expensive and is costing us as a nation. We need to move a step forward. This Bill helps us to move in that direction. 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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