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    "id": 933561,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/933561/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "around 18 months before the world’s heat rises to unimaginable levels unless we do something about it. There is a lot of politics involved in terms of saving the environment, people grabbing land and innocent buyers being duped to buy Government land. These were people who had financial independence and they used their money to buy that land and they are taken back to poverty. Unless we tell each other the truth, the issue around poverty and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will remain a dream. For example even the Western world and the bigger economies have already exhausted their natural resources. The only thing that is keeping their economies afloat is money from Africa. Kenyan tea is used by other countries to blend their tea so that it has a nice flavour. The same applies to our coffee. What is stopping us from having a final product that is marketed as a Kenyan product? There are a lot of issues that need to be addressed as a country and as a region that would have made a lot of difference on the people who live within the Great Lakes Region. Madam Temporary Speaker, finally I want to comment on the connection between industrialization and employment. This is a region that has an upsurge of youth. We are told that the youth population is around 70 per cent. We should utilize the energy of this block because this can become a very good market for people who are producing. Other than Rwanda that is recovering and Burundi that is permanently in conflict; most of the other countries have access to education, putting their youth together and making them much more innovative so that they can take our economy to the next level."
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