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    "id": 974810,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/974810/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I agree with my colleagues that these amendments are very important to this country and more so, when they are targeted at improving the business environment. When this Bill was being moved by the Leader of the Majority Party, it was indicated that it is targeted at improving the ease of doing business. Hon. Joseph Limo and I had a chance of attending a workshop where this was being discussed. There is what they call the ease of doing business index which is calculated every year facilitated by the World Bank. If you look at what is happening, Kenya has managed to move from position 136 in 2014, to position 56 this year. Putting this into context, in Africa, there are two countries which are doing better than Kenya, that is Rwanda — which is at position 38 now but was at position 29 last year, so, they dropped by about 9 positions — and Mauritius — which is at position 13. So, in the top 50, 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."
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