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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much. I would like to comment on the statement by the Senator for Migori. You will be surprised that when we get reports from the Auditor-General from counties, we are not even surprised. Almost 100 per cent of the counties have not insured medical equipment. They do not even have paperwork in terms of titles or logbooks. Some of the properties do not even have valuation. They do not have any valuation roll or a fixed asset register. It is important to ask the governors to do valuation for the assets and insure them. As my colleagues have said, if a building gets burnt down by bad luck, what will happen if we do not have resources? Since resources are scarce, they should insure the properties, so that they can be compensated by insurance companies who will have taken the underwriting. This is something that they urgently need to do. We need to move a Motion as a House, so that we can do a resolution to compel them to do asset valuation and get paperwork for building and land. You can imagine some of the hospitals do not even have title deeds for the land where the hospitals are built. By bad luck somebody can decide to allocate themselves that land. You can get some rogue governors who can allocate themselves some of this land. This is a serious matter. I want to comment also on the statement by Sen. Hamida. It is also important for us to be disciplined. The problem is that we lack discipline as Kenyans. Why are we going to the chemist to buy antibiotics without prescription? This is basically lack of discipline. We need to be disciplined and teach our children from ECDEs all the way from primary school and secondary school, so that by the time they become adults, they will have some values. The reason we are buying medicine directly from chemists without seeing the doctors is because of our values. I thank you."
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues to support the statement by Sen. Hamida. What is happening in this country is very unfortunate. Drugs are just being bought from the counters. Even antibiotics and the controlled drugs are not being controlled. It has been abused over time. As a result, there is a lot of resistance now for drugs to the extent that some people cannot be treated when they have any kind of acute sickness. Equally, it happens the same way, the way it has been done by human beings. When animals are being treated, they use antibiotics meant for human beings to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "administer to the animals. As a result, this goes to the meat and the milk consumed by people. I think it is high time that we should not leave this issue in a statement alone. We need to have a Bill now to address drug abuse control. At the same time, I want also to join in supporting Sen. (Dr) Murango's statement that this country has now turned out to be a consumer country. We are even importing milk and eggs from outside the country. Our farmers are getting unnecessary competition and they are not able to even sell their products like eggs, meat and milk. Even corned beef is now being brought from outside the country. We are losing a lot of markets. We are now getting everything from our neighbours Tanzania and Rwanda. Kenyans are only becoming consumers. We are such a lazy society that we are not even farming our farms; they are being left idle. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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"content": " I am unable to see Members properly."
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"content": " Sen. Oketch Gicheru, please proceed."
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this side, the system does not seem to be working. We have been queuing and we are not getting the attention that we need."
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"content": " How then did I see that you are queuing?"
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"content": "I think my eyes were curious to speak. On a more serious note, I thank you and I want to make a quick comment on the statement by Sen. (Dr.) Murango. There is a big problem in terms of the price and mop-up of rice in our country. I hope that the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries will take this statement very seriously. I hope they will be able to look at the issues that are affecting farmers in Mwea with regards to the criteria and process that affects pricing of rice. I have seen this even in Migori County, where the farmers of Lower Kuja in Nyatike Constituency are working very hard. Today if you go to Lower Kuja, just the same way as people in Mwea, you will find that they have piles and piles of paddy that is not being bought, despite the fact that we have got a number of Government institutions that can first buy paddy and second can also buy rice. For instance, the deal that we have with the Kenyan National Trading Corporation (KNTC) is one that should be able to help these farmers to have their rice mopped up by the relevant institutions. Right now, the farmers in Nyatike have to sell their paddy to people who are coming from as far as Uganda, despite the fact that this rice is subsidized by our local resources here from Government. One of the biggest things that I hope that this committee will look at is quick payment to those farmers, because the delay of payment, when you go and give, for instance, your rice to the Kenyan National Trading Corporation and then they want to pay it three months later, when people who come from Uganda can come and pick it and pay a lower price, but pay immediately, it becomes a problem. So, the issue of payment is something that must be looked into. Most importantly also, we should look into the issue of the subsidy in the input for rice, not only in Mwea, but also for the people of Migori County who are producing rice. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Lastly, the issue that has been raised by Sen. Hamida is an important one. I think that on this particular issue, I hope that this committee can go and look at the inappropriate use of antibiotics in animals that people are eating in this country. The treatment of animals that form the basis of food that we eat in this country are a big contributor to this AMR problem. Sen. Kisang’ has talked about the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials where people are just getting antibiotics from every mushrooming chemist that we have in the country. This is something that must be looked into and a proper assessment must be done. I thank you, as I support the two statements."
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