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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndwiga",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njeru Ndwiga",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just wanted to draw your attention to some of the people you lord over in this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to congratulate the Government. It came out very clearly in His Excellency the President's Address that rural poverty has, indeed, been tackled. As a Minister in charge of rural development, I can categorically say that, indeed, rural poverty has been tackled. I will give you instances. 136 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 27, 2007 In the North Rift, for example, in the last two years, 482 dormant dairy co-operative societies, which had collapsed with the collapse of the defunct Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC) Limited, have been revived, yet you hear some hon. Members say that nothing is happening on the ground, and that the economic gains are not trickling down to the people! Within that period, since the revival of the KCC alone, the North Rift alone received in excess of Kshs126 million. That is money which was not there previously. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, some of my colleagues here do not even know on which party's ticket they will seek re-election, because it all depends on what their leader will tell them. Right now, they are talking about ODM(K) but come December, if he says that they should move to another party, all of them will follow him there. We want to have consistent and independent hon. Members, who can stand here and tell us that they are independent persons and they can chart their destiny. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to agree with my colleague that the President talked about Lake Victoria. Indeed, Lake Victoria is a very important natural resource for this country. I want to challenge my friends to join hands with my Ministry and assist us to revive the fisheries co-operatives which are dormant. Let us pump in a little CDF money in those co- operatives and they will become active. The Government has connected electricity to some of the beaches and we have installed generators in a few of them. However, we need some assistance. I would like to ask my colleagues not to just come here and shout about ethnicity and corruption when their people are wallowing in poverty. You must lead from the front."
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