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    "id": 381603,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Elachi",
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I stand to support this Motion. I want to start by saying that one of the challenges we have faced in this country is that we look at issues based on our communities. You find that if I am an agriculturalist, then I will have to fight for what is so much on my side and I will forget that there is something called livestock. When it comes to business, I will leave the pastoralists to deal with the livestock but I will be the one to go to north eastern and buy the cattle and come and sell. Therefore, again, I am the beneficiary just the same way the coffee farmers from Mt. Kenya area would do the farming and everything else, but it is somebody else who will come, buy it at a cheaper price and go to sell it and benefit more than the farmer. Therefore, we need to start from there; if this indeed is my country and the Constitution gives me the right to live anywhere in this country and, therefore, I can go to north eastern and become a pastoralist because I will have to keep livestock, I have to take care of that. That is when we will start appreciating that Kenya is our country. Madam Temporary Speaker, our Government is now three months old and I know there are a lot of teething problems and a lot of promises that had been made. But I know and I believe that after one year, Kenyans will appreciate the Jubilee Coalition Government because these are some of the ideas in their manifesto. They are very clear. They did not just go out there to get votes, I know they meant it. When you look at the President and the Deputy President, they were very clear on what they really wanted to see. The Deputy President was once a Minister for Agriculture and he knows the challenges and what he did in that short period he was a Minister. Indeed, he turned things round and I know we are going to turn things round in agriculture and livestock. What we need to ask ourselves is; are we now going to separate politics and development? I think that is where we are as Kenyans and it is a big challenge in this country. We are not only looking at politics when it is finishing us and forgetting that Kenyans need service. When you look at the Constitution, it is very clear; the county governments are supposed to deal with abattoirs, animal immunization, et cetera . How do we assist the county governments, in terms of their budgets, to ensure that they have also budgeted for some of these things? I know we need to have a clear guideline and framework, If we missed it in the Constitution, it is because of the same politics. When we looked at the Ministry of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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