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    "id": 244572,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sambu",
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        "legal_name": "Alfred B. Wekesa Sambu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am very focused. I am sober. I am not drunk as Mr. G.G. Kariuki thinks. I have not taken any alcohol. It is good that the vehicles used by Government officers are being withdrawn from them. It is important that we give the field staff of the Ministry of Agriculture some means to go to the field. Right now, we are using the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to produce seedlings for farmers. In fact, I want to ensure the production of macadamia nuts in Mosop Constituency. However, who will be there to help the farmers? I cannot employ the staff. This Ministry is paying its officers, but we do not see them. When some of those vehicles are returned, they should be sold, so that the Ministry buys cheaper vehicles or even motorbikes to be used by its field staff. Those officers should be seen and heard. They should have demonstration plots in locations, so that farmers know what kind of crops can grow in their areas. When you tell a farmer in Nandi District, for example, to grow macadamia he will ask you: \"What is macadamia?\" He or she has to see to believe. People have to see to believe. The people who can make them see are the Ministry of Agriculture officials. The Ministries of Agriculture and Livestock and Fisheries Development and Marketing should move to the field. I would like to thank the Minister for Livestock and Fisheries 1830 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 5, 2006 Development and Marketing for visiting my constituency to talk to farmers. He also commissioned some milk cooling plants. That is what Ministers should do. All officers should be seen to be working. I do not know the name of the District Agricultural Officer (DAO) of Nandi North District. He never attends the district agricultural committees. There are three divisions in my constituency. I do not know which officers from the Ministry of Agriculture are stationed there. The only officers who are visible in this Government are the assistant chiefs, chiefs, the DO and the police when they go arresting drunkards in chang'aa dens. However, other officers are asleep. Therefore, this Government should wake up and send officers to the field. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support this Motion as amended."
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