University of Nairobi academic Herman Manyora told the BBC the debate was of little value as Kenyan had an insignificant middle-class that would have been influenced by the performance of some of the candidates.

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Other member of the subcommittee and I appreciated this point, but believed that the first letter was of limited or little value.

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But little of this was likely to lead to higher-value exports to China.

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However, I was stunned by how little credence the audience gave to my examples of the value that pharma brings.

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