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"content": "Thank you. I was just trying to say how much we have deviated. The reason why we say we were at par with the Asian tigers is because we lost the game when we killed our industries by not protecting them. Remember the tea industry was employing so many people. We had the coffee and the pyrethrum industries. They were employing about 300,000 people every year. We lost it. We lost the coffee and sisal industries. We used to grow them in large numbers. We lost them because we did not protect them. This is the Bill that will protect us. Lastly, it is a bit unfortunate at this point if we depend on the West to import things like food and foodstuffs. We grow fruits from places like Magadi and then we import juice. This is unacceptable at this time. It means our planners are not planning properly. We should solve this problem. Thank you. I support this Bill."
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