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    "id": 749276,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/749276/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute and support this very important Bill. I want to support the Kenya Trade Remedies Bill 2017, whose main objective is to protect the domestic industries from unfair competition from either the East or Western side. It is a very essential document at this point in time because we have to protect our industries. This will create jobs for our young people. We have to make sure that we create jobs in this country because we have so many people who are unemployed. We can only employ them by creating more jobs. Also, we want to be a bit creative when it comes to creating wealth. We cannot create wealth if we are not protecting our industries. If we let them to be under unfair competition from the West, then we are going to kill them. When we protect our industries, we will increase innovation, which will stop our country from being a consumer country. By so doing, we are going to create more innovation in our country. We have what we may call consumer mentality. We are losing patriotism, where we buy things from outside. We go to the shop and check whether things are imported or locally made. If they are imported, we tend to prefer them. If we want to grow, we will grow at the time we will buy what is Kenyan. We need to have the mentality of buying Kenyan to be patriotic. If you see a Kenyan driving, you will find that he or she is driving a Toyota from Japan, wearing a suit and a shirt from Oxford Street in London, maybe a tie from China, a shoe from India and a Samsung phone from Korea. What may belong to Kenya is only the body. Nothing else comes from Kenya, which means we have lost patriotism. If we re-think about that, that is the time we are going to grow as Kenyans."
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