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    "id": 988806,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I thank the Committee and the CS for the Ministry of Health whom I did not have an opportunity of knowing but is doing a very good job under very difficult circumstances. Apart from the few hitches like the sacking of that person and the burial of the Siaya gentleman, overall, he is doing very well. I see a lot of opportunity in this pandemic in terms of how enterprising this country is. It is in such a way that right now, we are producing our own personal protective equipment (PPE) and masks. Some students are also doing trial for ventilators, if we are to progress to the next level, and I need this Committee to follow up on this one. In terms of our manufacturing dream and creating more jobs, I see this pandemic as an opportunity for us to develop our manufacturing capacity. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether this can be legislated but we have a lot of cheap products from other countries. I do not want to name them. They are stifling our small industries that would have come up. It is high time that the Government and everybody else became patriotic to this country to ensure that we realize our potential by protecting the small industries from cheap imports. The other issue I see as an impediment to manufacturing in this country is scarcity of electricity. To date, a county such as Wajir, we have problems in terms of electricity and blackouts in the whole county that is paralyzing everything. We are still using generators and are not linked to the national grid despite our counties great potential in terms of green energy such as solar."
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