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    "id": 973207,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/973207/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
        "slug": "abshiro-soka-halake"
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    "content": "This is very sad. We have seen that this country used to have such robust cotton and sugar industries. I think we had one of the best sugar belts in this country. All those farmers seem to be impoverished. We used to have the coffee, tea and flower sectors that were next to none. We are now seeing a decline in our agricultural sector. The agricultural sector provides more than 24 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). We saw what happened with the coffee, maize and sugar cane farmers. Everything is closing around us. I do not know what this House needs to do to save this country from collapse because we cannot be net importers of everything. We import toothpicks, eggs and everything. I do not know what is happening because the fundamentals of the economy that are holding our middle income status are not there. Our strategic direction with the Big Four Agenda cannot be supported in the absence of even the basic manufacture of some of these things. I think this country is in a bad state when it comes to its manufacturing sector and factories. It begs the question, when these industries were going on was there no environmental impact assessment or plans that were being followed? Where was NEMA all this time as these industries went on to pollute the environment to the level where they have to be closed down? The culpability is not just with the factories, but NEMA itself should take responsibility for having slept on the job. This House should, therefore, hold NEMA to account at to why it let the industry---"
}