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    "id": 360330,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sambu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 137,
        "legal_name": "Alfred B. Wekesa Sambu",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute. I am glad you know all my names. I rise to support this Motion. When I look at some of the countries in Africa like Botswana, which has similar climatic conditions like what we have in Northern Kenya particularly, produce some of the best meat in the world simply because they have policies, commitment and the urge to do their best for livestock farmers. In this country, we do not seem to have the same commitment and the same urge. All we do is make decisions which we forget the next day and that is very sad. Hon. Speaker, I am happy because last year, I was a member of the Budget Committee. The budget process in this country is now in the hands of Members of Parliament and the people of Kenya. I remember when we were going round in various parts of this country asking Kenyans what they would like to spend their money on. In Northern Kenya, they talked about water, water, water and water. They talked about the creation of livestock training centres or livestock colleges and slaughter houses for their livestock. That is because if you have livestock, you will have to carry it all the way to Athi River here in Nairobi. The livestock will not be feeding along the way and half of them will die thus causing a big loss. So, they talked about constructing dams to get water and pasture for their animals. I remember we made provisions for that request in our budget. I think this year, during the budget time, we shall ask the Executive what they did with those things which were approved by Parliament. It is very nice for those items to be approved, but it is a different thing all together for them to be implemented. We also have a major oversight role. We should ensure that what we pass here in Parliament is actually implemented. In fact, we have the Implementation Committee and that Committee should ensure that what we pass here is actually implemented. Last year, we approved a lot of money for the support of those kinds of programmes and I wonder whether the college, dams and slaughter houses are in place. When we come to look at the Budget for this year, I urge you to look at this and find out what happened to the money we approved last year for those kinds of projects. With those few remarks, I support."
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