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    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I think the Member for Malindi should have been given more time to explain to us the importance of that fish called pweza . I rise to support this particular nominee, a former Member of Parliament, a distinguished and educated gentleman of this country who holds a Master of Science in Finance. He is a learned fellow with a Certified Public Accounts (CPA), really educated and experienced gentleman to lead the Kenya Fish Marketing Authority. He is going to come to lead the Authority at a time when discussions across the world are now going under the blue economy and talking about how to make sure that we exploit our water bodies, our oceans, our rivers and our lakes to make maximum economic benefit to the people, to the country and also make it sustainable. One of the questions I have always asked myself is that when you go along the coastal towns and especially even in our country, whether you go to Mombasa, Malindi or Lamu, despite the heavy investment or the great returns that we get from the maritime, for example, fish in our oceans, do the local communities along those areas benefit? What you end up seeing are very good establishments, whether it is the best hotels around Wasini Island or the most exclusive resorts in Malindi or in Lamu, but when you go to the local communities surrounding those establishments, you find that they live in poverty. There are very many social ills such as drug and sexual abuse in these communities or towns. It is also a challenge that we have to think about, as a country, even as we move towards the Blue Economy and exploit all the oceans for the maximum benefit of the country and the world. How do we make sure that the communities that have over the years stayed along our coastlines, that protect the prawns and all those fish that cost a lot of money, are also taken care of and taken along? The Kenya Kwanza administration has an agenda of building dams and water pans across the country. For example, my constituency is going to hold one of the largest dams in the country; Itare dam. In this discussion this afternoon, I am thinking that perhaps we should make it mandatory that even as we do those dams that we have fish farming as a mandatory component of the contracts that we are doing for the dam constructions, so that we do not just benefit from the water that we collect from the dams, but we also grow our own fish. I have always held the thinking that one of the cheapest things to produce is, for example, fish, because once you get the fingerlings, you put them in water and they have their hole and you plant that ecosystem in terms of what they eat, you plant those plants, then you do not need to take care of them anymore. I think it is time that even as we do the dams and the water pans, we make The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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