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    "id": 1233648,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1233648/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kaguchia John",
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    "content": "I also have a case against some of these bodies that we are creating in the country. We have too many bodies that are dealing with fish farming in Kenya. It is high time that we looked at our budget and asked ourselves as a country, now that we have too many resources going to recurrent expenditure in the country and only a little amount going to development, is it sustainable that we keep creating too many bodies in the country? Look at the fish industry. For example, we have the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), the Kenya Marine Fisheries Socio- Economic Development (KEMSET), the Aquaculture Business Development Programme (ABDP), the Fish Levy Trust Fund (FLTF), the Kenya Fishing Industries Corporation (KFIC), the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation, and now here we are creating another organisation that we are calling Kenya Fish Marketing Authority. Are we not able to do some of this fishing marketing using some of the already existing bodies? Must we keep creating new bodies one after another? This is encouraging the ballooning of our budgetary expenses in the country. How sustainable can this be? My question is: how can this be sustained if we keep on creating new bodies every other day? It is high time we relooked at this. As much as I support the Chair of this body, let us put a full stop to the creation of new bodies that are ballooning our wage bill."
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