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    "id": 318015,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/318015/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. A.C. Mohamed",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Fisheries Development",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abu Mohamed Chiaba",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry appreciates the work the community plays in ensuring the sustainability of the fisheries resources. Their participation is in line with Article 69(2) of the Constitution which obligates every person to co-operate with the State organ or any person to protect the environment and ensure ecological sustainable development and use of natural resources. Beach Management Units (BMUs) are the grassroots institutions enabling communities to participate in fisheries management as outlined in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. They ensure that resources are sustainably utilized because they are the first casualties should the resources collapse. To ensure that they discharge their role effectively, the Ministry supported BMUs in the following ways: (i) Provided for an enabling environment of their operation through legal notice, the Beach Management Unit, Regulation 2007. (ii) Provided the BMU Operation Guidelines - These have since been harmonized in the three riparian East African partner States. (iii) The Ministry has guided them for formulation and implementation of the by-laws governing each BMU. (iv) Built their capacity through training in beach management orientation; fisheries management, fisheries financial management, data collection methods, and basic skills in fisheries patrol. (v) Provided the border BMUs like Migori, Bondo, Busia, Lake Victoria, Shimoni and Lamu with a 75 Horsepower out-boat engine. The BMUs are members of the Inter-Governmental Agencies Monitoring Control and Surveillance Unit. Currently, BMUs have a national network which enables them to link and learn from each other. They have a national official and I am glad to announce that Kenya is the current regional Chair of the East African Community BMU network. (b) The Government has no intention of paying BMU allowances because they are core managers of the fisheries resources. However, the Government will continue supporting them in all other ways as stipulated in answer (a) above."
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