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"speaker_name": "Hon. (Maj.-Gen) Nkaisserry",
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"content": "Thank you very much hon. Speaker. Let me begin by thanking hon. Farah for bringing this very important Motion which affect almost all the people in ASAL areas, especially the pastoralists. Hon. Farah saw the need for this fund and I want my colleagues to understand that this is not commercial insurance. Hon. Farahâs Motion urges the Government to establish a livestock insurance fund which can be under any Ministry, be it Agriculture, Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) or any other body. There should be something to cushion livestock farmers. Hon. Speaker, the main economic activity for ASAL people is livestock and it is their economic mainstay. Drought has continued to diminish that economic mainstay. For example, hon. Bishop Mutua has just mentioned that when farmers take loans from AFC and their animals are wiped out by drought, they were left poor. For example, in Kajiado County, we are almost getting marginalized because the lives of our people are being destroyed and they have no other means of economic survival apart from selling land, which has caused a lot of migration. If this fund was in place to cushion those people, I am sure we would not be having the issue of migrants"
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