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    "speaker_name": "Nyeri County Women Representative",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua): Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is my maiden speech. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you and the Speaker and all the leaders in this House. This is the first time that this country has a presidential system, and so we are going to see a bit of hang ups; so, all the leaders in this House will have a duty to move the country as well as the House forward in terms of the presidential system. I also thank the people of Nyeri for electing me with 216,000 votes. I promise that I will work hard and champion a lot of their causes. I would like to support the Mover of this Motion. I urge that the Motion covers more than the ASAL areas. Livestock is not just found in the ASAL areas. There are many other places in this country where livestock is found. I agree that many of our families have livestock as an asset. If you look at the legal terms, it is actually possible to find insurable interest in the only asset that a family has. This particular Motion is supportable, but it should cover more than the ASAL areas. I would also like to urge that we move towards sector reforms. When we came to this House early in the year, the political reforms had been done in the electoral area, police and judiciary. These are what we call the political rights. We are now moving to economic rights. The other Motion before this one was on health. So, the more this House passes piecemeal Motions, the more we do not help the country. I would urge that in a Motion like this one we look at more than an insurance fund. If there are alternative feeding habits or alternative measures that could be adopted the better, so that we do not just wait for drought, loss of livestock and then insurance comes in. I will be urging that the House categorizes these sectors. If today we are looking at livestock then we should look at the wider livestock sub-sector reforms. We also need to look at health, land, and water reforms, now that the Cabinet Secretaries are coming. If we do that, in five years a lot of those things will have been better done. I support the Motion and urge that it covers livestock across the country."
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