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    "id": 1354741,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1354741/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
        "slug": "enoch-kiio-wambua"
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to also contribute to this Bill. From the start, I thank Sen. Cherarkey for thinking through such an important Bill, especially that we take care of the interest of livestock farmers. In supporting this Bill, I will limit my comments to Part I, II and III. I will begin with the Short Title. The Bill is titled; “The Prevention of Livestock and Produce Theft Bill.” I am thinking that the Senator and the drafters wanted to capture the live animals and products from livestock. I will request the Senator to consider amending the Short Title to read; “The Prevention of Livestock and Livestock Products Theft Bill.” This is because even when you read the introduction and object of the Bill, it dwells a lot on live animals, makes mention of firearms, but omits a very critical product from livestock, that is, skins and hides. You know that the leather industry in this country, basically more than 80 per cent of it, is from livestock. So, just to consider expanding the scope of the Short Title to include the livestock products. The branding of animals is a very important aspect. How I wish that the Senator could have thought about putting in place or enforcing the formation and activation of livestock ranching societies. That way, it becomes a lot easier and neater to establish clear identifiers from specific ranches, as opposed to having 10 owners of livestock in the same household and each one of them is supposed to come up with a different brand for the animals’ identification. It would be a lot easier if this could be done through ranching societies. This has happened before. Where I come from in Kitui - and Kitui is one of the leading counties in establishment of cattle ranches - we used to have very vibrant cattle ranches in Kitui West. One was called Yatta B2 and the other one was called Mwakini Ranch. In those ranches, owners would just state their livestock, but would come up with their own unique identifiers for their livestock."
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