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    "id": 360315,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rotino",
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        "legal_name": "Philip Lotiolo Ruto Rotino",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. On the outset, I want to thank the hon. Member for coming up with this idea. All those people who are not for this insurance fund are not really livestock farmers. Some of us who come from ASAL areas feel the pinch when people do not give livestock farmers the attention they deserve. Livestock farmers in this country are the most neglected people and yet, all of us look for meat when we go for lunch or dinner. Where does that meat come from? It comes from the livestock farmers and yet, we do not give them the attention that they require. The insurance that the hon. Member is speaking about is very important. Insurance firms will surely support farmers. When there is an insurance fund, the livestock farmers will be supported through construction of dams or on improvement of pasture. They have to ensure that facilities are there. They have to ensure that veterinary services are available. At the moment, they are not there. The rest of the farmers are given the support that they require. If you look at the maize and coffee farmers, they get more support from insurance firms or other organizations because they have a worldwide market. We can even have worldwide market for livestock farmers because all of us need meat. I want to support the Motion and say that we need to give our livestock farmers the attention that they deserve. I will even go further and say that this House should form a committee to look into this issue and bring a report. We can discuss and pass it. We can even draft a Bill on this so that livestock farmers are given the attention that they deserve. I want all of us in this House to support this Motion and a Bill is brought so that we make it a law that livestock farmers must be insured. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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