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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support but before I do so, I would like to move some amendments on this report. The truth of the matter is that all good practice in livestock and agriculture--- As a trained professional, I can say this: It will depend on something called “carrying capacity of the land”. That is how many people can be carried in a given mass of land. We are trying to offer services to the people and not necessarily to the land. I travel widely and I have been travelling from the 1970s and, in some of these places, you travel for, at least, 200 to 250 kilometres without seeing any human being. Maybe, one or two camels. Now, you want to reward that with a big percentage on land. There are areas which are very heavily populated. Places like Kiambu for instance, where we are seeing that even the IEBC has a challenge in terms of registering people because of jiggers which have damaged their toes and fingers; there is plenty of poverty. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to cite places like Naivasha. Next to the lake, a place called Karagita has the poorest population in Nakuru. That is the place you saw in the newspapers where 180 kids were featured having rickets and marasmus. The population is where it is because of certain parameters. What is expected of this and future governments is to offer certain basic services like health, education, infrastructure including if they are too many, high-rises like they do in Australia and other places. I, therefore, seek an amendment, so that population takes 48 per cent in that formula and the landmass comes back to 5 per cent. That was the original thinking by the Commission and it has rationale in my thinking. I have the amendment and I believe it is approved."
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