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    "id": 974818,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/974818/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ainamoi, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sylvanus Maritim",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13289,
        "legal_name": "Sylvanus Maritim",
        "slug": "sylvanus-maritim"
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    "content": "encourages investors to invest heavily in Kenya. The other reason is the strong communication network in the country. With fiber crisscrossing every part of this country, it makes it easier for investors to invest in this country. I am saying this with Turkana County in mind. Today, I saw the county asking for a wayleave of Ksh93 million shillings from an investor who wants to connect that county with fiber optic. They are basically keeping off investors from that county. Our country has friendly rules, regulations and tax regimes. I am happy because this Bill, in a way as much as it encourages foreign investors, it also ensures that products that we can easily manufacture as a country will be given first priority by exemption of tax and excise duty. Clauses 6 and 13 are about embracing technology where now we do not have to file or authenticate documents or even append signatures manually. With introduction of electronic means of doing all that, for sure, it is going to ease doing of business. However, I have reservation with Clause 14 because it suggests that for companies that will be having less than 100 employees, considerations should be made so that they can be exempted from occupational safety and health. Issues of security and health should largely be dictated by the nature of work that one is doing. There is no direct relationship between the number of employees and the exposure to risk. There are companies which could be having less than 10 employees, but the risk level is high. Consider those people who work with masts or power lines. They are equally exposed to high risks, however few they can be. My recommendation, later on, will be that, let that be dictated largely by the nature of work that they handle."
}