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"content": ") the recipient or their subjects. For instance, in part, it is says that a person who is 18 years old cannot continue staying in Mwea Irrigation Scheme and so on and so forth. We will continue to talk about these bad laws until maybe another three months. However, critical among these issues and even among other players is a feeling and understanding that nobody meant well for the African farmer. For instance, on milk, according to the law, milk comes from cows only. Anything else is called “secretion”. Anything from the camels and goats are secretions. Seven of the most notorious laws in livestock diseases are not covered under notifiable diseases and are not scheduled. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are 331 reasons embedded in the statutes which would make us understand why we have all this mess in agriculture, driven by laws that were made by men in Parliament to oppress Africans up to death. My Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives has had many sittings with all the players. In my report, which I invite hon. Members to look through, I have cited several reports and we have also attended very many meetings, key among them is the one with the Ministry of Livestock Development. The Ministry of Livestock Development has a very good reason. It is saying that Kenyan agriculture contributes 24 per cent of the national GDP. I see that one of the presidential candidates is in the House right now. We wish he notes these points. At 24 per cent, when you start creating Ministries then – and you will only have 22 Ministries - it is only rational that you create two slots for this contributor of a quarter of our GDP. In other words, if there were to be four Ministries in the Republic of Kenya, one would be that of the Agriculture. Three would be other Ministries. Now that they are 24, they are not asking for six but for two. That presentation was done by the Ministry of Livestock Development and we concurred with them that as we make these laws and as we look at ALFA, we look at the organization of the Government like the command of the police. For instance, we have the Administration Police and the regular police. Although both of them are in the law enforcement, they have found it necessary that the command of the fauna is done specifically by the fauna people. These are the wildlife officers and the command of the flora is done by the forestry officers. That position has been agreed upon and I persuade hon. Members to adopt that strategy. That strategy will allow animals to live on their own save for research and the Research Department will have two Deputy Director-Generals. This is a position we have also been able to agree upon with all the parties and this matter will stand resolved. If you want to export any commodity today, for example, cabbages or any other vegetables, you will have to comply with 23 statutes and chances are that you will not fulfill any of them. This is because if you look at the whole legal framework, you will see that it is meant to oppress us, the Africans, who now rule. There is no reason, as it was mentioned by the Minister last night, why we should have things like Cap. 320 on the African Produce Rule, which clearly says that an African cannot sell eggs between 6.00 p.m. and 6.00 a.m., in Central Province and Nyanza Province. Those are the rules, you can enforce them and the police can arrest you for doing that. The slow pace of evolution of agricultural laws has forced the Government through several initiatives among them Egerton University, Tegemeo Institute, to do thorough research. What we are having here today is so sweet, save for some little discomfort which is related to livestock. Nigeria has taken the whole Bill and implemented it word by word. Other nations are doing the same. The Crops Bill, which"
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