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    "id": 380282,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we now do have, for example, an area like Turkana; it is true that we have found oil as Kenyans, and we are very happy that Turkana is now hopefully going to change. But the same Turkana has also recently discovered water; and we did not know that. Recently, we have also discovered that Turkana has a lot of water underground. This discovery came only because Kenyans got interested in the place because of the oil; if there was no oil, we would not know what lay underneath Turkana. So, it looks like we need to do a little bit more work so that all these ASALs – maybe they are not so arid if we looked downwards, perhaps there is water everywhere. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, recently, this House did pass a Motion to create disease free zones. This is another area which is a problem to people who depend primarily on livestock because when they try to export meat to first world countries, they are not able because they say our animals have diseases. This should be looked at broadly. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not convinced that the county governments cannot build abattoirs unless they are told to do so by the Senate. I would like to take this opportunity to challenge county governments wherever they are not to wait to be told what to do. They should be able to gauge what they need for their economy. Last but not least, before I sit down, I would like to take this opportunity to urge the Mover of this Motion to go beyond the Motion and bring a Bill so that we have these abattoirs in every county and not only in arid and semi-arid areas. Even where I come from, we also need an organized abattoir. So, I urge the Mover of the Motion to go further and bring a Bill so that we have these abattoirs in an organized way and we do not have to take our animals to the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) and see them dying for no good reason. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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