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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the boreholes done under the World Bank and Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) Programme and the International Livestock Programmes (ILP) and all roads done as fire breaks have been taken by somebody else. This Ministry had a capacity to do firebreaks. God forbid; they have eaten all the grass also. So, we may not have major fires. However, that firebreak capability was converted to be agricultural mechanization service and they deliberately avoided to do desilting in dams in the ASAL. What kind of Government shall we be promoting then? A Government that moves forward ten steps and backwards 20 steps, is what we are talking about here. This Committee, in its role of oversight, will not just sit there. It will report here and I am reporting here that this is an unfair treatment. This should not have occurred in the first place. There should be adequate compensation. I know some of you may say that I do not come from the pastoral community. Really, I do not want to be a member of the pastoral community. However, I was voted in by 12,500 votes from the pastoralist community for the record. I am, therefore, a more pastoral Member of Parliament than many Members of Parliament. I should get my rightful place in this House as the chair of this Committee. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, people have gone to the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) and stolen property. They have even sent thieves to be managers there without consulting the Minister for Livestock Development. The Ministry of Livestock Development should be left to manage their own affairs. Uplands would never have collapsed if the Ministry of Livestock Development was given an opportunity. It is depressing to discuss these things sometimes, especially when you look at universities coming to take the little institutions people have to make them campuses. I am looking forward to next year during Budget when these Ministries will come to apply for construction of fresh colleges to take care of the middle level cadre. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, ADC, Galana, is clearly a livestock Farm. We went there, as a Committee, and we want to confirm to this House that 12,000 head of cattle, under very good programme, were put there. We support it. As we sit here in front of these cameras, before this House and before our God, we have only 4,285 head of cattle. The others died. Others were eaten by predators. Among the predators includes elephants. Elephants were recorded by the Committee to have contributed to this loss. We are saying this as a Committee that the Minister for Agriculture must sack that MD and hand over the Galana Ranch to people who can manage it and who can understand that the feeding habits of an elephant and its social habits prohibit it from being a predator on these animals. This is not corruption. You cannot decide alone that the Kenyan taxpayers who have contributed money by paying taxes and given you 12,000 animals, can allow you to put into your stomach 8,000 animals and go without any explanation. There have been good ecological results, seven of them, but instead of the revenue from that going to the Ministry of Livestock Development, it has gone into people’s pockets. Again, this Committee will be keen on that. I said earlier that the Bible is very clear. It says those who have little, that little will be taken away from them even among brothers. The cousins to the Minister for Agriculture sit and eat together. If you compare the offices of the Ministry for Livestock Development and those of the Ministry of Agriculture, you will not need to be told who works for the Ministry of Agriculture and who works for the Ministry of Livestock"
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