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    "content": "one sector that has made many Kenyans survive. When Kenyans say they are hustlers, it is within this sector that they are able to take their children to school and ensure life goes on especially in the counties. The counties have had so many investment forums. However, within those, one wonders where the voice of the livestock trader, the hawker, the public transport operators or the market traders where they collect revenue is heard. In this country, when we come to layers of how we do business, we will never look at this sector as “business”. That is where our young people are finding challenges. They do not want to be innovative and engage in such business. It is because they believe this is not business. Therefore, there is need to anchor it into an Act of Parliament. We have students who have visited us. In the new dispensation, we do not have white-collar jobs. However, if one has gone to campus and can craft a better way of doing things, they will be wealthier than the one with a white collar job. Therefore, we need to ensure that we give them incentives. Even when the Kenya Revenue Authority is giving incentives to various groups that do business, it is only the manufacturers who are beneficiaries. Every person is doing business. They are required to have licences and pay KRA dues. However, whenever it comes to incentives of who is who in terms of tax incentives, they will never be there. However, now that we are anchoring them as any other, they are supposed to be bigger beneficiaries than the manufacturers. For many years, we have been wondering how to ensure the livestock traders and pastoralists are able to thrive. Billions of shillings daily circulate among livestock business people. That is the reason some areas experience serious cattle rustling. When we anchor this into law we bring in a law to safeguard them. We are able to prosecute those doing cattle rustling in court, for charges against crimes on humanity. When they engage in cattle rustling, they even kill. This will make them understand that they can trade in livestock and make good money. Many people do not know that, and that is why very few people are in that business. We have left the whole of that sector to pastoralists. You can be involved in agriculture whether you are from the pastoralists community or not and benefit. We have had issues of fishmongers and we have also heard the public outcry concerning fish from China and other places, but that is business. If you understand that fish mongering is also a business for people in micro and small enterprises, you also have to understand the importance of having liberty in that trade. You can export your fish to China and China can as well export its fish to Kenya. We can both do business as long as we ensure that fishmongers also have a market for their fish. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have always believed that cyclists and boda boda"
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