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"content": "If you look at the welfare of the people at the county level, we can directly attribute it to poor living conditions because of these debts. This is because when farmers are not well paid, this has an effect on how much they are able to have in order to take their children to school. When farmers are not well paid, this has an effect on how the health of the family is at any given point in time. When farmers are not well paid, this impinges on how, as a country, we are going to stop being a slave economy, which imports everything at a cost of over Kshs1 Trillion, and exports goods worth about only Kshs458 billion. We will encourage local productivity; in the spirit of the Jubilee message, I would like to urge the Jubilee Coalition to ensure that the counties that we have, if truly they are committed to the spirit of devolution, start on a clean slate. We would want to see that farmers do not just process raw materials but also there is value addition, so that we can create employment for our young Kenyans. Parastatals in this country are also known to help in local knowledge management, because of the fact that they are managed by Kenyans. It would be in order to argue that people at any given locality are best attuned to managing their natural resources. If you travel across this great Republic of Kenya, you will realize that most of our peopleâs lives are supported by subsistence agriculture. Therefore, it will be in order to have local knowledge harnessed through ensuring that we have a clean slate, and we have parastatals in the counties that are not interfered with, because of what we can call national interest, or whatever political thing, that may exist at the national level. With those few remarks, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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