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    "id": 974787,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/974787/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana Central, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Lodepe Nakara",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the goal of this law is to provide the objective basis of understanding and improving regulatory environment for businesses in our country. I want to highlight one thing that happened. We went to one of the countries last month and met a group of Kenyans who told us what happened to some investors who came to this country last month. We are told there are some investors who came here and they wanted to see a Cabinet Secretary concerning investment in this country. They stayed here for three weeks without seeing the Cabinet Secretary. They left and went to Rwanda where within three days they did not only see the cabinet secretary, but also met the President of Rwanda himself. They have now invested in Rwanda. The bureaucracy in this country… Our own civil servants like the Cabinet Secretaries are denying Kenyans a chance to invest in this country. They are also denying us jobs by denying foreigners who want to invest in our country the opportunity to do so here. The investors I have talked about went to Rwanda and they met the President let alone a cabinet secretary. That is what encourages investors to go and invest in such countries. I think this law will guide our country in terms of how to do business. We need also to go beyond what we have done and hold to account persons who have been given mandate to make sure that businesses in this country are done well. If they fail to perform their duties, we must also have a law on how to deal with such people because they will be denying this country employment and taxes."
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