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    "id": 360386,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Juma",
    "speaker_title": "The Nominated Member",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Zuleikha Juma Hassan",
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    "content": " Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. This is my maiden speech. First, I would like to thank God for bringing me to this House and also thank my party for nominating me to this House. I do not think it is also going to be late for me to congratulate you for being elected the Speaker of this noble House. I stand to support this Motion wholeheartedly because I am a pastoralist. I was educated with money derived from those animals. I drank the milk and ate the meat to be able to grow and be where I am today. Pastoralism is no longer a way of livelihood but it is an economic activity. In the Jubilee Manifesto, the Government wants to grow the economy of this country to double digits within a very short time. I do not think it will be easy for us when we have no export market oriented approach for the livestock industry. At the moment, our camels are taken to the Ethiopian side of Moyale in order to be sold to Saudi Arabia and Yemen. We do not get any revenue from that activity. Our animals are being exported to Mauritius by our businessmen who did not have any support from the past Governments. But it is the initiative of the same businessmen to take the animals because of the drought in the northern part of the country to the Coast region, where they have rented ranches which are idle and owned by people who do not conduct any economic activity on them, but who have been given notices. They have been give notices and told that by 16th of this month, because of a wildlife/human conflict, they have to move out. Those animals are being kept there for beef. They are taken to Mauritius and they bring us cash; but it is unfortunate. I am passionate about wildlife. Other animals are being brought in day in, day out. That is a problem in this country. It is unfortunate that, today, we are targeting the people who farm in those areas. They have taken their animals there and now, they are being told to move more than 100,000"
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