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"content": "make sure that any resource that is produced in this country is properly developed so that it benefits the whole country. When all of us go to the European countries probably the fish we eat there comes from near Migingo, my constituency, Mbita and the other constituencies. Hon. Deputy Speaker, therefore, I believe that my colleagues will support this Motion as a first step but a lot of Motions and Bills we will be bringing will be to help reengineer it. I call it âreengineeringâ because this is a giant and sleeping industry. If you look at what is happening in the lake in terms of water hyacinth, can you tell me that if the Government had a deliberate effort to get rid of water hyacinth from Lake Victoria, it would not have been done? I believe it would have been done. The only thing is that so far we have not appreciated the value of the fishing industry and I expect the Jubilee Government - the digital Government so I hear - to be more digital in terms of promoting the fishing industry. Given that, that region where I come from, the Coast and even the Turkana region where our fish also comes from did not vote for Jubilee, this is a way to show us that Jubilee would not discriminate against us. We want heavy investment and I know that I will visit the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture who is now the Cabinet Secretary for Fisheries very soon to have a discussion on how we can revive and how we can have this industry exploited to its full potential. Hon. Speaker, Sir, whenever I go home---"
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