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    "id": 374111,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity. I rise to support the Motion for the extension of time, so that the line Ministries can get enough time to prepare itself to operationalize the Act. It is imperative to note that the Act means well for this country in general. As you are aware, we are coming from a scenario where every item is under a board. Today you start something, they form a board of directors for it. These were just avenues to create jobs for cronies. You can ask yourself what the Pyrethrum Board or the Sisal Board has achieved since Independence other than creating jobs for people. You have a Managing Director there and a Board of Directors with many vehicles. The funds that are given to the Ministry of Agriculture every year are taken by these people in terms of allowances and earnings. There is no research that they have done except for the Tea Board or the Coffee Board. Many of the others are moribund and have no business being in place. This Act should have come into force much earlier than this. It should have come into force last year or during the last Parliament. You are aware that most of the money that is given to this Ministry is normally used on Recurrent Expenditure. It rarely goes to the people who are in need of it. Agriculture has been devolved and I do not think we need as many boards as 47 in number at the moment. If we have nine, which have secretariats that are dealing with every subsector, we are going to have a leaner organization that might be more effective than they are today. We should change our attitudes. The new Constitution has come into force and the issue of having every person in a board, so that he becomes relevant in this country must be put to a stop. I support that Act and I want it to be operationalized. I come from an agricultural constituency. Sugarcane is grown in my constituency. I want to have a board that is of use to the sugarcane farmers in my constituency and not a board that just gives jobs to certain people who have been in those boards for the last 20 years. They are"
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