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    "content": "Why do I say this? This is because it does not only affect the community because of the livestock, it affects the community because that livestock cannot survive without water. It cannot survive without roads. It cannot survive without proper infrastructure. When a Ministry is left to only one area and not integrated into the planning system, especially when it comes to allocation of finances, then it is not going to be effective. I know the Ministry is doing well. It is winning awards. It is doing well because it has good planning systems and structures but when you go to the ground, what is the translation? How is it affecting the woman there on the ground? How is it affecting the families? At the moment, pastoralists are grazing their cattle in Nairobi. Of course, this will continue to happen in this country until serious measures are taken. Therefore, I am calling upon the Minister, as has been suggested by some of my colleagues, to use this Parliament because he has the goodwill. He should not fear. We are ready to go the full hog on this one. We are ready to say that we want to see northern Kenya and areas that are occupied by pastoralists, once and for all, taken seriously by this Government. We have seen that the Ministry of Agriculture has continued to allocate more funds to tea and coffee farming areas. Why is this so? Why is it that the dairy sector in some regions is doing well yet that livestock has no different name from the livestock that is in Garissa? It means that there is an attitude. Let us deal with it. If it is political, let us deal with it politically. If it about finance, let us deal with it that way but we must find a solution. So, as I support, I say that this Ministry must be given capacity. It must be financed and we must give the people of northern Kenya, the pastoralist communities; the livestock farmer, hope that this Government, for once, will work for them."
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