{"id":362052,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/362052/?format=json","text_counter":248,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Ng’ongo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2884,"legal_name":"Alice Wambui Ng'ang'a","slug":"alice-wambui-nganga"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, aware that the fishing industry makes a major contribution to the economy by producing over Kshs10 billion in foreign exchange and further aware that the industry provides employment both directly and indirectly to many people; noting that the potentiality of this sector is under threat due to use of non-scientific ways of fishing and continued use of wrong fishing gears due to poverty levels affecting the fishermen; this House urges the government to establish a fund from which fishermen can be given grants and access cheap loans to buy the recommended fishing gear to help them acquire correct and scientific fishing gears."}