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    "id": 924986,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/924986/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo North, KPP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hassan Hulufo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13348,
        "legal_name": "Hassan Oda Hulufo",
        "slug": "hassan-oda-hulufo-2"
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    "content": "I would like to focus on the livestock sector specifically on the leather sub-sector. Agriculture contributes 26 per cent to the GDP. Therefore, if we have to bridge the gap, we must invest in value addition of agricultural products: crop, livestock, fish and so on. In the Big Four Agenda, we have value addition to leather as a key focus of manufacturing. Unfortunately, while this subsector focuses on the Big Four Agenda, as we speak today, the people I represent in this House, throw away hides and skins because they do not fetch good prices when they decide to sell them. This is despite the potential of leather to create 50,000 jobs and increasing earnings of between Kshs150 million to Kshs250 million. We need to make proper investments in this subsector. We need to borrow a leaf from Ethiopia, which strategically invested in the leather subsector in 2005. They now earn more than what they were earning at the beginning of the process of making the strategic investment, which was at 16 per cent. The shoes they produce are…"
}