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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, those are some of the rules that our farmers had to live with. That is even not outrageous. If you consider that those who lived in the Mwea Irrigation Scheme, once you attain the age of 18, you are supposed to vacate. Those are part of the draconian rules that were set by the people who developed the irrigation scheme. We also know that under the same rules, like in the Mwea Irrigation Scheme, they do not allow the exploitation of other by-products of the rice industry. The poor farmer is left exploited and suffering. Those pieces of legislation are also very inaccurate. For instance, under the Animal Diseases Act, Cap 364, they have omitted very important diseases such as the Mareks disease, Gumboro disease and infectious bronchitis. They have also omitted Fowl Pox and avian Encephalomyelitis, amongst many others. There are about ten deadly diseases which have been omitted in that list. Again, with regard to livestock or animal health, you will find out that the Public Health Act, Cap 242, the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, Cap 244 and the Pest Control Products Act, Cap 346 all deny the experts from the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock Development a chance to give their views after looking at a product. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, all said and done, I would like to ask the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, in the same spirit that she did the wonderful work that we have just witnessed, to come and repeal all those 106 pieces of legislation and replace them with one workable Cap 318. That is because our grandmothers are bogged down by those legislations and it is a total mess! Yesterday, in one of the media houses, there was a news item on HIV/AIDS. I shed tears when I learnt that some people in some parts of the country, that is Kisumu specifically, women, other than buying the fish, they give in to sex so that they can be allowed to buy. The Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, please, whether it is an economic, legal or whatever intervention it is, let us save this country and realize enormous potential that we have in our industries and our people. It is a shame! It was there on TV that our mothers and grandmothers have to give in to that before they are allowed to buy fish. That is the price of most Kenyans. Once we start looking at ourselves as Kenyans, it will be possible for us to go and develop the Coast just off Lamu, do a super highway all the way to Ethiopi and Sudan without knowing who is going to benefit. That way, we will open up the so-called Arid and Semi-Arid Lands March 19, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 299 (ASALs). As a livestock and agricultural economist, I will persuade this House, with all sincerity, that future exports that do not comply with certain cardinal measures--- That is value adding, environmental control and things to do with quality control. They should be banned all together under one single Act. I want to say that our highways are not safe. No matter how much we try to patrol the highways, it does not work. That is because the potholes will always make your cars to break. In actual fact, before they built the Naivasha Road up to Nakuru, it was impossible for our friends from Nyanza to drive their Mercedes Benzes all the way to Kisumu. They needed four-wheel-drive vehicles. That is the disparity in development that we do not want to see in this new era of development. I want to welcome you again to Rift Valley and tell you that the problems in that area will not be solved by what we just did. The problems will be resolved by revisiting the Ndung'u Report, the Mau Forest and our own politicking; the dirty politicking around Rift Valley. That is urgent, so that we can live in peace in Rift Valley. For our brothers in the Rift Valley, if you are targeting certain communities, please, they do not live in Molo or in Eldoret! We understand those people live in Central Province. So, please, just jump, get a train or a bus. But do not harass those small people again! They have suffered! We have suffered! My own tenants have suffered. In 1948, I had a similar fate. We are looking forward to getting to the root cause of the problems that have befallen this country. In conclusion, I want to thank everybody who participated in the peace deals. I beg to support. Thank you very much."
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