{"id":132391,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/132391/?format=json","text_counter":480,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Lesrima","speaker_title":"The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security","speaker":{"id":178,"legal_name":"Simon Saimanga Lesirma","slug":"simon-lesirma"},"content":" Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to second the Motion. I want to begin by congratulating the Minister and his senior staff for the job they are doing under very difficult circumstances – difficult because the level of funding reflects the mentality of the current and previous Governments towards livestock farmers. We are told that the agricultural sector, which includes the livestock sub-sector, contributes 12 per cent of Kenya’s GDP. Of that agricultural contribution to GDP, 42 per cent is from livestock. However, if you look at the Budgetary allocation to the livestock sub-sector over the years, you will realise that pure agriculture gets double the amount of money that the livestock sub- sector gets. The current Government created another Ministry for the livestock keepers, in a bid to please us, called the Ministry of State for Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands and provided it with a Budgetary provision of Kshs800,000,000. That is what I was referring to as “another shell” the other day."}