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    "content": "This is my maiden speech. At the earliest opportunity, I want to thank the people of Kesses Constituency for considering me an ideal person to represent them. I would like to take this opportunity to promise them that whatever we promised both at my personal level and at the Jubilee as a coalition we will be able to deliver. I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate our speaker in absentia. As regards this Motion, we cannot overemphasize the importance of livestock farming. We know that livestock farming is a major source of food in Kenya. It is a major source of employment. It is even a foreign exchange earner and to a bigger extent, it is a backbone to many communities in Kenya. I would not support the idea of insuring livestock. All of us know that insurance has certain principles and one major principle is the insurable risk. We know that all insurances are based on insurable risk and all farmers have insurable interest in farming but because most of the catastrophes that occur regard floods or drought, they normally occur in a catastrophic manner. What does that mean? It means that it covers a whole region within a short time. No single insurance or any serious government will be able to insure for all the farmers in that region. So, the aspect of insurance is not the way forward. In my own opinion, what we need to do like the budget we have just passed, we have the component of Equalization Fund. People who emanate from those regions should be able to provide for irrigation---"
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