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    "id": 1185830,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1185830/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Tom Ojienda, SC",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise, pursuant to Standing Order 53(1), to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries regarding the massive death of cage fish in Lake Victoria, Kisumu County. In the Statement, the Committee should - (1) Investigate the cause of the recent large-scale death of fish in Lake Victoria that has resulted in devastating losses for fish farmers in Kisumu County, stating the number of cage fish that have died. (2) Provide a record of cages in the Kisumu County section of Lake Victoria as well as that of cage fish farmers and state the financial implications of the sudden death of the cage fish. (3) Outline the measures the County Government has put in place, if any, to mitigate the losses incurred as a result of the massive death of fish as well as mitigating the environmental causes of such death in the long term. (4) State the legal framework or regulations that the County Government of Kisumu has adopted to govern and regulate cage fish farming and whether there is a legal recourse for cage fish farmers’ recouping of loss of investment."
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