{"id":971865,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/971865/?format=json","text_counter":281,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Funyula, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo","speaker":{"id":13331,"legal_name":"Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo","slug":"wilberforce-ojiambo-oundo-2"},"content":" Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the proposed amendment, however plausible it may be in the short-term, is self-defeating. We are talking about encouraging manufacturing in the Big Four Agenda. We have a lot of rerun glasses in this country. We have several factories in Nairobi and some in Mombasa that mill glasses. This essentially is self-defeating and we are not achieving the Big Four Agenda. I do not understand the need because we can encourage manufacturing. The policy should be import substitution instead encouraging imports as it is going to kill local manufacturing."}