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    "id": 207878,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munyao",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Livestock and Fisheries Development",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this chance to issue a Ministerial Statement concerning a point of order which was raised on Thursday by hon. Ojode on the issue of Baragoni Holding Ground in Lamu District. Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. Ojode has made allegations that my Ministry had given out Baragoni Holding Ground without the adherence to proper procedures. As you are aware, land allocation is vested with the Ministry of Lands and not my Ministry. My Ministry charges user fees for grazing and watering in all its holding grounds on sessional basis. Holding grounds are important livestock marketing facilities that contribute to the improvement of the socio-economic status of the people living in the pastoral areas. All the holding grounds in the country became non-operational when the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) ceased operations in 1989. The Ministry could not continue sustaining the holding grounds due to inadequate recurrent budgetary provisions. All the infrastructure and machinery in these facilities need substantial resources to rehabilitate. Over the years, my Ministry has been renting the facilities to grazing to livestock traders and pastoralists who are in need of pasture and water. They pay monthly or annual grazing fees to the Ministry and conditions are reviewed from time to time. As regards to Longhorn Ranching Company Limited, this company wrote to the Ministry in March 2005 to be allowed to use the holding ground and to raise the cattle for export to the Middle East and Mauritius. However, following the re-opening of the KMC, and with the possibilities of penetrating external markets, the trader requested for a lease for an extended period. In September 2006, the lease agreement for grazing which had been prepared to allow the livestock trader to use the facility for grazing was found to be defective and was withdrawn, hence no grazing agreement was concluded with the ranching company limited. My Ministry has formed a task force to come up with recommendations on the use of all the holding grounds by communities, livestock producers and pastoralists in a sustainable manner. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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