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    "id": 317198,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 381,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Minister will get his opportunity. We are proud of this House because the representatives who are here are true Kenyans. They are the ones who supported the Motion. They are the ones who today continue to support this Bill. So, if it is fair to say thanks, then we will say thanks to Members of Parliament and not the Government, because it acted after a Member of Parliament brought a Bill here. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if it was about tea or coffee - and with due respect to my colleagues because the chairman of the committee, Mr. Mututho, has been a very good supporter of all the farmers, even the pastoralists---Although we have got corporations dealing with tea in this country and boards that were established a long time ago to deal with coffee, we do not have a single one dealing with matters regarding pastoralists. It is being established now, not by the Government, but at the request of Members of the Back Bench. The Government is only coming to applaud us. You should have come up with this Bill a long time ago. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to continue by saying that this Authority is needed and was needed a long time ago and we want to support it. Given the possibility of this Board, trying to seek for funding, not necessarily from the Government because we do not have a Government that listens, but from other organizations, will be good. The Government does not like the pastoralists. So, the fact that now we can go to other organizations that are in love with pastoral affairs to give us funding will be good. If it came through the Ministry, I can tell you the Treasury will refuse even before it comes to the Minister. Right now we have monies lying in the Ministry of Finance and the former Minister for Finance can confirm this. This money is meant for the construction of roads in northern Kenya between Garissa and Mandera. Even when donors have given us money, the Government has refused to put in its component. Therefore, we are very happy that we have a system which will give us money minus the direct engagement of the Government. Before this was established we used to have what we called---"
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