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    "id": 934477,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/934477/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jude Njomo",
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        "legal_name": "Jude L. Kangethe Njomo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support this amendment Bill. I support it because it will give power to the Competition Authority of Kenya to pinpoint and identify the businesspeople who are doing unfair business. Unfair business practices are killing the people who are trying to grow their businesses. It is killing our SMEs. I will be very happy when we give the CAK teeth to bite and make sure that they are biting. Some practices that are happening in Kenya should not be happening. When they get teeth to bite, I will first tell them what I learnt in school. When I was learning Business and Commerce, I was taught that there are three sectors of business, namely, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. Those systems are now very old-fashioned. You will find that the manufacturer has become the wholesaler and retailer thus killing that line of business. All those other people do not get any job. That is unfair practice. We should get back to the old-fashioned way where the manufacturer concentrates on manufacturing and leaves the trading to others. That is the only way we can create employment. That is the only way our youth can get employment. Next, I will tell them to look at some of our big businesses in the country and the way our technocrats craft contracts. Currently, the biggest contract in the country apart from the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is the Last Mile Connectivity of electricity. Previously, those works were done by Kenyans who formed their own small power companies and would go out there in a small lorry with three or four poles and connect power. Our technocrats drafted a contract based 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."
}