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    "content": "Parliament may also need to come up with a Bill that will not only provide important disaster relief, but also will be able to come up with reforms that will cushion farmers against such catastrophic losses. Insurance is just but one of the tools that we can use. The Government could also introduce index-based livestock insurance. The only problem with index-based livestock insurance is that it requires very high quality data, so that, at the end of the day, we will not be talking about compensating individual farmers. We will be talking about compensating the farmers in aggregate terms. That will be a bit tricky in the sense that we need to have a system that will establish the losses in aggregate terms. Given that the Jubilee Government is a digital Government – so they say – it will put in place geographical information systems to capture losses and look for ways and means of compensating them. The challenge, therefore, is to come up with a system that will capture all that, so that farmers can be compensated adequately. At the end of the day, the bottom line lies with the leadership. Recently, in the run up to the Cabinet appointments, we remember that the President and the Deputy had promised Kenyans that the 18-member Cabinet would represent the face of Kenya. It is commendable that the Government settled on a lean Cabinet portfolio of 18 Ministers as an austerity measure. We want all corners of this country represented. We would like to see good governance, which is about equity, inclusiveness, accountability, participation and upholding the rule of law. We hope to see this reflect other parts of the country. With regard to the civil society activists, we saw animals at the gate of Parliament. We want to remind the activists that their energies are misdirected. We saw blood at the gate but we expected them to talk about the escalating insecurity in parts of the country, where human blood is spilled. We expected them to talk about the raiders who killed 11 people in Bungoma and Busia. We expected them to address the clan fighting in Mandera that has seen several lives lost. The society should look at the security situation instead of directing their energies to issues that one would consider non-issues."
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