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    "id": 802863,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang'",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join my colleagues in supporting the Statement by Sen. Nyamunga. As a country, we forget that in 1990, Kenya attempted to build its first car, which was called the Nyayo Pioneer and about five prototypes were developed. For those of us who were alive around that time, we remember that the first car could not start. President Moi attempted to start it, but it stalled. It was not a great success. We spent close to Kshs1 billion on the project of coming up with a Kenyan car. From 1990 to date is enough time for someone to become a voter; we are talking of more than 28 years down the line. As a country, we have not learnt our lessons from that initial experiment. We went ahead and established the Numerical Machining Complex (NMC). The mission of NMC states that it is set up or formed for the purpose of manufacturing motor vehicles. The question is: How many motor vehicles has NMC ever produced, yet it continues to be funded and financed by tax payers’ money? It continues to gobble money and here we are, instead of challenging NMC to give us a vehicle, we are going to South Africa to buy a vehicle. Building a motor vehicle has been demystified. Elon Musk, the South African who migrated to United States of America is building electric vehicles and spaceships, which was previously the domain of Boeing and big government contractors. As a country, we cannot say that we want to achieve the Big Four Agenda when we are doing these kinds of ridiculous things. We had the ‘buy Kenya, build Kenya’ mantra and challenged the Cabinet Secretary for Industrialization and Enterprise Development and the Government to revive it. There is no way we will achieve the Big Four Agenda if, on food security, our maize comes from Mexico and sugar from Brazil; on health care, our equipment comes from the United States of America and our doctors come from Cuba and on manufacturing, our buses are coming from South Africa. When building our houses, where do our tiles come from? Most likely, they are not produced from the kilns in Athi River. We import tiles from China and even roofing materials from the West. As a nation, we must be serious and I join my other colleagues in pushing for the Government to take measures to ensure that these are done here. We have people who build the matatus that ply the Eastleigh and Rongai routes. It is only in Pakistan where you will find more colourful and vibrant matatus than the Kenyan matatus. I believe that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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