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    "id": 118205,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to begin by thanking the Minister for that comprehensive Statement. My interest was generated as a result of the threats that livestock farmers were facing from the bank. Because of the fact that the Minister himself has confirmed to the House that the pastoral farmers suffered four years of bad weather and the fact that, now, the Ministry is taking steps in order to relieve this pain from livestock farmers, I would like to get assurance from the Minister that as they are doing this auditing and classification of the loans and as this matter is going before the Cabinet and even before it comes to the House, that these farmers will not be threatened by any court action, by the AFC or by any other party. That, they will not lose their ranches as a result of their inability to pay the loans. What the pastoralists are asking for is what has happened to other agricultural farmers in this country. We know that the Government has gone out of its way to bail out coffee and tea farmers with fertilizers, seedlings and with such other support, but this has not been translated to the pastoral farmers in this country. I would like to get assurance from the Minister that as they do this, they will also consider providing funds to the livestock farmers for restocking. In spite of the fact that they have got ranches, these people have also lost the only source of livelihood they had. Could the Minister give an undertaking that, first of all, they will suspend any threats to these farmers and, secondly, they will provide funds for restocking to the livestock farmers in the country?"
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