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    "id": 132417,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/132417/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 381,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this very important Vote. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will just pick from where the Chairman has just left. I thank the Minister, Assistant Minister, Permanent Secretary and staff generally at the Ministry of Livestock Development. We stand here full of lamentations and do not know who to blame. This is because this Government is not sensitive to the livestock farmers in this country. It has no interest; otherwise this Ministry would not have been cannibalized the way the Chairman has just said. Part of it has gone to the Ministry of State for Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands and another part to the Ministry of Agriculture. So, there is general policy confusion. Now that we have passed the Livestock Policy, I want to tell the Minister that he has substantial support in this House. You are a very powerful Minister. If you use it well, during the next Budget, we will not be lamenting the way we are doing. The starting point is to get out of the office together with your staff and go and visit all the pastoral areas in this country, together with the 60 Members of Parliament whose economic mainstay is livestock. From this House you can become a Prime Minister in 2012. When you become one, this country will never be the same again, because 70 per cent of the landmass is inhabited by livestock farmers. Therefore, it is good that you have our support. We know the contents of the Budget now. Not enough money has been allocated to this Ministry. But some of the efforts the Government has done in the last few days are recommendable, I want to associate myself with those Members who have thanked the Minister and Government. I only did not understand the dynamics behind Kshs8,000. Why did you choose the figure Kshs8,000 and not Kshs10,000 or Kshs15,000? I am sure that some of the animals that you have collected within the Kshs8,000 can fetch much"
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