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    "speaker_name": "Saboti, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caleb Amisi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also add my voice to this very important Motion. I did not want to interrupt my very good friend, Hon. Kimilu, when he mentioned me, but I can assure him that he has no power to carry my burdens. I heard him pitying my situation in Trans Nzoia. He has no power. Only God has the power to carry all my burdens. In the very first sentence of this Motion, the Mover is aware that the Fertilisers and Animal Foodstuffs Act, 2015, provides for the regulation of fertiliser importation in the country. He also notes that the Fertilisers and Animal Foodstuffs Board regulates the fertiliser and animal foodstuffs industry, including the manufacture and production of fertilisers. So, we are aware of the existence of legislation, Acts, and policies. There are a number of Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs) that have been established in the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. The Ministry has one of the largest numbers of SAGAs among the ministries in the country such as the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) which was formerly the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), and the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) that has several departments for each crop. They have departments for pyrethrum, maize, sorghum, cashew nuts for those from the Coast, sugar, tea, and coffee, all under one umbrella of AFA. I can go on and on. Very many departments have been established, some on the crops side, and others on the animal side. We are blessed with fauna and flora as a country. We are supposed to be food sufficient since agriculture was established as the backbone of this nation. Looking at our colonial history, when the British colonisers arrived here, they did not single out Kenya as a mineral destination. Kenya was neither a gold-rich nor an oil-rich nation. The British established a colony in Kenya because they discovered it to be an agricultural-rich nation. We have since moved out of that sector. Agriculture is no longer the backbone of this republic. We are moving to other economic frontiers. However, you cannot stand strong as a nation if you are not food sufficient. The superpowers are strong. Russia has held Europe by its neck or balls because of being food sufficient. Ukraine has become the centre of a global war because of being a food- sufficient nation. You cannot become a superpower without being food sufficient. Kenya prides itself on being part of the East African hegemony. But we can no longer flourish in the past glory of being part of an East African hegemony because we neglected our very backbone that 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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