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    "id": 975583,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Report. One of the industries that is on the fast lane of growth is the services sector. This sector is where the economic growth in the world is. But if you look at the BPS today, it does not really vouch for the growth of this sector. The service industry, namely, tourism, transport, finance, entertainment and cyber space is where growth is in the world. Today, many countries that are experiencing economic growth are actually the countries that are investing in the service sector. For instance, you do not find a lot of manufacturing in Singapore and the Asian countries. You will hardly find any agricultural activities, but you will realise that their transport sector, ports, financial services and the tourism sectors have made their economies grow very fast. If you read the BPS today, you will realise that it makes a very bold statement that the services sector is where there is growth in the world. But it goes ahead to vouch for sectors that are slow in growth. Yes, we are looking at manufacturing, but without an equal investment in agriculture, there is no nexus between the two. Such that if we do not invest in agriculture today, and we have problems with coffee, tea and sugar industries, which are agricultural products that we would like to add value to for us to move to manufacturing, we will not grow. These are sectors that have issues. We are sinking a lot of money in these sectors yet we will not get the expected growth in the economy. Therefore, I would like to look at a policy shift such that this country moves towards the services sectors where there is growth in the world. Of course, we cannot abandon agriculture and the other things that we are doing right now, but we need to put deliberate efforts in the services sector. This is that third BPS since the Big Four Agenda started. But if we look at it and try to evaluate what the two previous BPSs have done towards the Big Four Agenda, we will be disappointed. We have not seen any growth. Have we seen any activities that are stimulating the 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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