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    "id": 749638,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I want to take this opportunity to contribute to this Bill which the President signed sometime in 2014. I think there has been a delay. This Bill should have come earlier because there has been a delay. Nairobi is one of the best cities in the region and, therefore, establishing Nairobi International Financial Centre here is a bit late. We should have done this much earlier. I am saying this because I had the benefit of working for a multinational company about 10 years ago. I was the Export Sales and Marketing Manager for a company called “Kodak”. I covered East, Central and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Islands. Everywhere I went, people in those countries admired this country. If you said you were coming from Kenya people accorded you the respect you could least expect. Nairobi has come of age, and we should have had this Centre established much earlier. As we know, the establishment of Nairobi as a financial centre will be positioning our country. Therefore, it will have a number of benefits. Kenya being one of the biggest economies in the region as the Mover said, and having been the Export Sales and Marketing Manager of Kodak, countries like Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho have a lot of respect for Nairobi. From the time His Excellency signed this, we should have moved faster as a Parliament to actualise it. We should make it a financial economic centre so that other countries can benefit from the same."
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