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    "id": 1353598,
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    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I rise to also support this Motion by Hon. (Capt) Ruweida Obo. One of the very grotesque impunities that have been perpetuated in this country from Independence is that the political and ruling class replaced the white settlers who were here. Consequently, the Coastal people suffered in every imaginable way. Their resources were all taken away. They were not promoted. Even when we had the Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965 on intensification of government investments in high potential areas, marine resources were not considered high potential areas. The only areas that were considered high potential were the tea and coffee-growing areas. Consequently, after Independence, within the shortest possible time, our beach lands, except a few public beaches, were grabbed by the political elite of the time – from Vanga all the way to Kiunga. The indigenous people who were there were left with nothing. The Mijikenda and the Bajuni were left with basically nothing. We have seen for the longest time people leaving other parts of this country and going to Lamu and getting any size of land allocated to them and title deeds are issued to them in the shortest time possible. But the actual indigenous people take the longest time for them to be given title deeds to their own land. In our case, the livestock sector was basically our mainstay. The livestock sector does not even have a Livestock Development Authority today. The Marine and Fisheries Development Authority does not exist. They brought up the Coast Development Authority, which was poorly funded and it basically did nothing. But if you go to the tea sector, coffee sector or maize sector, they have everything. This sector has a bigger potential. If I say it has a bigger potential than the agriculture sector in this country, you will not believe me. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as you had put it, being a lawyer yourself, we have the 12 nautical miles which is the territorial waters of this country. For your information, a nautical mile is 1.6 of a road-made mile. A road made mile is 1.6 kilometres. It comes to about 37 something. We also have an exclusive economic zone of 220 nautical miles, and a continental shelf of 370 nautical miles from our coastline, where everything under there belongs to us. In our exclusive economic zone and our territorial waters today, there are all sorts of ships from the Western world — from Japan, China and everywhere. Our marine resources are getting depleted at a rate you cannot imagine. If I give you a figure of US$200 million a day, it is a conservative figure. From our coastline and Somalia’s coastline, there are ships from Europe. One of the reasons why they do not want us to have stability in this part of the world is because they are making billions and billions of dollars from our coastline. This is because they are the ones who are harvesting our marine resources. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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