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    "id": 924955,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saboti, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caleb Luyai",
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        "legal_name": "Caleb Amisi Luyai",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have been patiently waiting for this chance to support the Motion by my good friend, Hon. Waluke, which is at the centre of our survival as a nation and is key in terms of our sovereignty as a nation. We must ask ourselves what we can do as a country to bridge this huge trade deficit that we are experiencing. At the centre of this, we should try and see how we can do export promotion in terms of Government-funded trade fairs, conferences and exhibitions. More often than not, we bump into foreign trade fairs in major town centres of our country. I do not know if we experience the same outside the country. We have economic attaches in most of the missions abroad. I do not know if we have been able to look into that. Most of our local exporters do not have the capacity to hold such trade fairs internationally. The Government needs to chip in and support our local exporters in promoting them in terms of trade fairs, exhibitions and Government-funded conferences abroad as entities so that we showcase what we have as a country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, lately, we have been grappling with the issue of maize importation. I wonder why the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture would be preoccupied with supporting and promoting international commodity importers and commercial entities. The CS for Agriculture should be a friend of farmers. We cannot be talking about maize farmers and other farmers when their produce is rotting in various granaries across the country and the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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