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"speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for noticing me. I have been trying to catch your eye for sometime. I also realise that I need to visit our gymnasium so that I am fit enough to shoot up in good time. I am particularly impressed because I can see the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs here. However, before I proceed, I would like to thank the people of Naivasha for electing me. The people of Naivasha elected me after making three attempts that were all bogged down. However, I am really happy that they elected me. I want hon. Members to look at Naivasha from a different perspective. Naivasha should be looked at as a place with an involvement like Sicily Island; one place that produces the best roses in the world. A place that even when there were chaos, kept the economy running by producing approximately Kshs24 billion worth of roses and other flowers for the market. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there was only one ugly incident that occurred there and on behalf of Naivasha people, I would not want us to be branded as warlike people. I would like Naivasha to be seen as a holiday town, and as a place where everybody can invest. Indeed, when His Excellency the President visited the town, he said that we should be thinking along those lines. We should think about Naivasha as part of the city. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, having said that, I want to make a comment in relation to the Presidential Speech. The President would like this House, at one point, to deliberate on two Bills. One is the Coffee (Amendment) Bill. That would be kind. However, it would be a wrong move because in this country, we have 160 pieces of legislation controlling the poor farmers. To be precise, out of the 160 pieces of legislation, 60 of them control crop production and livestock. Fifty of them have something to do with control of land. Twenty two pieces have to do with the environment and natural resources, eight have to do with regional authorities or something related to that and 20 have to do with taxation and taxes. The whole philosophy of using legislation during the colonial days was based on controlling Africans from production and introducing new taxes and new crimes for the Africans. All these pieces of legislation have something in common. They are oppressive to Africans. Indeed, 298 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 19, 2008 in 1923, there was a commission which to review African farming. There was a similar commission again formed in 1959. If you look through history, you will see that the Devonshire White Paper of 1923, clearly, says that Kenya is an African country and that everything we were to do then was to be based on the philosophy and thinking about Africans in one frame. The Devonshire White Paper, on the other part, introduced the first economic plan which envisaged the African agricultural sector. I would go through all the 160 pieces of legislature if there was time. Even with my broken legal English, because I am not a lawyer - I am an agriculturalist - I would point out a few things. Obviously, I will not do that. But having come, on a lighter touch, from the jogoo party, I would like to draw the attention of the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs to Cap 321, The Crop Production and Livestock (African Eggs) Rules under Section 4(3):- \"No eggs shall be purchased by a trader from an African except between the hours of 6.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m.\""
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