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    "content": "suspect he was a Kenyan. You do not have names like Kipng’etich and Kipkeino and other such names in Uganda. I know we have similar tribes but I highly suspect that guy was originally a Kenyan. What we are doing as a country is that we are taking away the opportunity of Kenyans to benefit from the plants that are important to us as a country; our resources that are of importance to us, we do not seem to take them seriously. I am glad that this Bill seeks to regulate this industry which is important; it also just profiles the coconut as a product that we can use for a whole lot of things. Indeed, I want to urge that we must put a lot of emphasize on research, so that we know what other additional and beneficial value this plant has or can give us as a country. If you look at the coastal region--- Recently as a Committee on equal Opportunity we were in the coastal region to look at the issues of the MRC. One of the things that came out very clearly was the issue of exclusion. One of the things that the coastal people are told is that they have a culture of sitting and waiting for the coconut tree to fall and they eat it. Therefore, that is why a lot of energy is not put there. Again, for some of us who come from marginalized areas, many of us are told that we have a tendency of sitting, taking a hook and putting it into the lake and waiting for the fish, and that we are not hard working. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it may be true that we are not hard working or it may be false; even if we are not hard working and God was gracious and gave us the fish and the coconut--- If we are lazy, and that is what we are, then put money into what God gave us naturally, so that we see how lazy we are with what we were given naturally. Therefore, I want to urge that a lot more money needs to be put there. W should disabuse the notion that communities are lazy when we have not put resources into the things that God has given them naturally like the coconut and the fish. The only thing I would like to urge is that we need to diversify. I know when Mr. Mungatana was moving the Bill in his mind he seemed to focus on the coast. However, there are a lot of areas like where I come from where coconut would grow very well. Indeed, in Takawiri Island in Mbita Constituency there is coconut already growing---"
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