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    "id": 749288,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/749288/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I congratulate and acknowledge the great work that has been done by Hon. Ochieng and the opportunity to contribute in this last minute to this Bill. The Trade Remedies Bill really opens our minds about what we need to do to protect our industries and to grow our economy so that we are not as disadvantaged in the global war competition environment. I think trade is actually one form of war if you do not think about it strategically as a country. In Kenya, we need to look at it along with how we control dumping and fair practices against our industries. However, we also need to be strategic and make some choices. I would like to put it on record that people have talked about tooth-picks a lot. However, Kenya can produce more than tooth-picks. I think we can produce bicycles, needles, spoons, forks, wheel chairs, furniture, buttons, belts and underwear. We do not have to import second-hand underwear, socks and things like that. If we put a category of things and we say this can only be produced in Kenya and we will not import this, it will create jobs and force us to come up with an industry and really create jobs in our country. We need to protect our industries from the importation of products such as tobacco and soda ash. Most importantly, I hope when the National Super Alliance (NASA) Government comes to power on 8th August, 2017, it will focus on a building and manufacturing culture as opposed to concentrating on an importation and consumption economy. We will do great things in agriculture in order to boost our food security. We will engage in medical tourism because we have qualified medical personnel. We will improve our financial services and strive to be a transport hub in this region. Thank you, Hon. Ochieng for this great proposal. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for allowing me to contribute."
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