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    "id": 803968,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/803968/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Oundo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I must admit I sit in the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives. It has been a long battle to get where we are. We must appreciate the little we were given. We expected much more. However, going forward, we need to look at Kenyan industrial estates a bit more favourably. They had initially been allocated Kshs1 billion but during haggling, it was reduced to Kshs300 million. We are afraid the Kshs300 million might not be much to support small-scale industries in various regions of this country. If we truly want the industry to account for almost 15 per cent of the GDP, we must show seriousness in allocating resources towards this area. There are so many traditional sectors where we have pumped in billions year in, year out and yet, the outcome is not commensurate with the amount of resources allocated. It is high time we started rating so as to see how much more we can offer into that sector. We support but we urge that in the coming budgets, efforts must be made to truly pump in more resources to enable us achieve the Big Four Agenda. Let me hope it is just paperwork; it is not just populist statements. We must match our words with allocation of resources."
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