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    "id": 916079,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/916079/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "sell their fruits in either Uganda or Tanzania. We are here and we must protect them. We will not involve ourselves in hate speech but this House must discuss. We are here to protect the people of Kenya. We must call a spade a spade if our people are losing jobs, if our people are losing business and if our people are not getting jobs in neighbouring countries. We have seen Chinese doing hawking. We have seen hawking business being taken up by people from other countries. We are under obligation to protect our people. Ask anybody and they will tell you that Kenya is an exporter of the hospitality industry. Anywhere you go, even in West Africa, the CEOs of most of the hotels are Kenyans. Today, under the current Government in Tanzania, Kenyans cannot do business. These Members must have memory. Our chicken was burned in Tanzania. Our cows were auctioned in Tanzania. Let us call a spade a spade. We should not be the country which suffers. We are a member state of the EAC, but our first obligation is on the people of Kenya. This House and the Government are first and foremost supposed to make sure that the lives of Kenyans in this country are improved. The Member must have done it in a very crude way, but we must discuss. The Committee on Regional Integration must go to Namanga. If you go there, you will see on the Tanzanian side, the trucks coming to Kenya forming a queue of over five kilometres. On the Kenyan side of Namanga border, you only see Tanzanian registered trucks going back. Why are our goods not going to Tanzania? Today, Farmers Choice Limited cannot sell sausages in Tanzania. It is because there are high tariffs imposed by the Tanzanian Government. Brookside cannot sell milk in Tanzania. Our top professionals cannot go to work in Tanzania, neither can they go to Uganda. We are the people’s representatives. We should not act with emotions. We must protect"
}