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    "id": 851476,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this very important topical issue. The issue of importation in our country needs to be addressed in a serious manner. We are importing fish and leaving our fish farmers without support and markets. In addition, we are consuming goods which sometimes we do not know where they are coming from. As we congratulate the President on the ban of importation of fish, it is important that we get deeper into the issue and understand who in the first place authorised licences for importation of fish into this country. We need to understand what data informed the need to license this importation. This is because it looks like we are not regulating our imports and anybody can go out there and bring us anything for consumption. I stand to support this ban because, I know for example, this country is importing a lot of rice, despite the rice we are producing in my area of Mwea. We produce more than 105,000 metric tonnes of rice. Before we consume that rice we receive a lot of imports, yet we do not know who is licensing them. They are not informed by any data and this rice comes from areas where it was preserved for many years. So, as a way of disposal, it finds its way into our country. We need to understand who is not doing his job, who is licensing and who is letting these goods get into our country. We cannot believe that of all other goods in this country we can have fish. I stand to seriously support this topical issue."
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