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    "id": 924779,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Waluke",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": "fish that we have in this country can feed this country and have excess to export. We have fish right from the ocean, Lake Victoria, Lake Turkana and Lake Naivasha, and the fish ponds that we have in our areas are enough to feed this country rather than importing plastic fish from China. I want to thank President Uhuru and his Deputy for reviving RIVATEX. It is going to help our youth get some jobs. We want the Government to continue reviving many industries. Flooding the market with substandard goods has killed many industries in this country including the giant factories like Mumias Sugar Company, Nzoia Sugar Company and Muhoroni. We import too much sugar and kill our own industries. President Magufuli in the last three years tried to revive everything in his country while we were watching. He led by example in Africa. When Kenyans exported chicks to Tanzania, he set them on fire. He did it himself as the President of that country. He ordered petrol, poured on them and set them on fire because he knew that Tanzanians can rear chicken instead of importing chicks from Kenya. When our cattle crossed over to Tanzania, they were auctioned. We have been lenient and kind while the deficit is increasing every day. We need to stand firm as a House and urge the Government that we need to reduce too much importation and give subsidies to our farmers. We are importing maize from Mexico and Uganda our neighboring country, yet if our people can be given subsidies, we shall not import food. We have killed farmers like those from Tebere, Mwea Irrigation Scheme. If the people of Mwea can be given subsidies, we shall not import rice. As it is, we are importing rice from Egypt and many other countries to this country. We are also importing eggs from China and fabric from Dubai, Italy and Turkey. It is good that RIVATEX has been revived. I remember when I was in the military those days, our uniforms used to come from RIVATEX but in the recent past, we have been importing police and military uniforms from outside the country. Time has come for us, as country, to stand firm and urge the Government to ensure that factories are revived for the benefit of our youths. We are sitting on a time bomb. About a million youths have completed universities and colleges, and we are not taking care of them as a country. I saw the other day an actuarial science graduate who got First Class Honours say that he has been washing vehicles for the last five years. Time will come when, if the Government will not take of the youths… (Technical hitch) As a country we need to analyse our needs, what we have and what we do not have. People cannot be importing goods in containers while our economy is going down. I think people in the Ministry are lying to the Government that the economy is doing well yet it is not. Without wasting a lot of time, I want to call upon Hon. Chris Wamalwa, the incoming governor of Trans Nzoia, to second this Motion. Thank you."
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