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    "id": 1526824,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mutahi Kagwe",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Let me start with the last one, and then build up to the other ones. I would like to confirm two things. First, AFA is not dead. My friend, the Senator, Hon. Kajwang’ knows well that AFA is not dead. AFA is much alive, and it is holding quite a bit of work that it is currently working. On the issue of consolidation or otherwise, this responsibility of disintegrating this is both the responsibility of the National Government, as well as interest groups. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when you look at the Bills that are brought to this House, there are Bills that have been brought on coffee, sugar, cotton, and pyrethrum. In fact, in my Budget Policy Statement (BPS) address to the National Assembly, I asked for protection of the same, to say that let us not disintegrate, because once we go that direction, then you will have so many institutions that are going to exist all over the place, it will be impossible to manage it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, one of the policy issues is to ensure that we stay consolidated rather than expanded or disintegrated. I believe Sen. M. Kajwang’ knows that in the last one month, we have been trying to do some of the work that he has proposed. The policy aspect is one of the areas that I am looking at. I can confirm to him that it is not an area we are ignoring. We have to have a framework where whoever is there and sits on that seat, can continue with the work that is there based on a certain framework of work that we are doing. As I said during my interview here, one of the issues that we are concerned about and shifting policy towards is firstly, the issue of value-adding in everything that we have got. It was there also in the years he has referred to because I was there. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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