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    "id": 749260,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/749260/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1356,
        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
        "slug": "wesley-kipchumba-korir"
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    "content": "The moment we will encourage our industries to grow, and I will bring an amendment and I will talk to Hon. Ochieng--- Part of the things we need to include as the function of this board and agency we are forming is to advise the Government and control what comes in. If something is produced in this country, it should not be imported from elsewhere. We should have an agency that decides what is imported and what is not imported. Before you import anything as a businessman, you should get a licence. If you are going to import matchsticks and yet we can produce matchsticks in this country, you should not be allowed to import them. Before we import anything, it has to be scarce; it has to be something that cannot be produced in this country. If we do that, we will have Webuye Panpaper running again. We will have the textile industry running again. Otherwise, no matter how much money we invest, no matter how many billions of shillings the Government puts into those industries, no matter how much money the President takes to Webuye Panpaper, as long as we are still getting cheap papers from China, those monies will go into waste. The first thing the Government should do is to stop the importation of those things. We should stop making this country a dumpsite for China. We should stop making people earn money through the sweat of Kenyans. When we do that by encouraging industrialisation, building more industries and making sure that people get jobs, the economy of this country is going to bloom and this country will move from a third world country. We will not be complaining about hunger and food shortage and yet, we have a country that can produce food. Qatar produces the highest amount of milk and yet it is a desert. This country enjoys the best weather and yet, we import things from a country that is a desert. I support this Bill and hope that when it comes---"
}