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    "id": 396108,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Elmi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 82,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Ibrahim Elmi",
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    "content": "Security is absolutely necessary for any production or development to take place in the north. So, how are those farmers expected to take milk to the consumers? While we are building access roads to people’s farms and factories, the Class A Roads in northern Kenyan are not yet done. So, that population that forms 15 per cent of this country and occupies 70 per cent of our land mass does not even factor in the market. So, infrastructure is key, if those farmers are going to market their animals and milk and, therefore, be part of this country’s economy. At the moment the milk is wholesome and they use it for subsistence. With regard to education, there is 80 per cent illiteracy in the ASAL areas. The shocking thing is that Kiambu has ten times the number of adult teachers Tarbaj has. Now, Tarbaj Constituency has 93 per cent illiteracy. So, there is a mismatch. So, there is a mismatch. Education and literacy are very important. For you to market your milk, you have to join co-operatives. That is why hon. Serem is able to quote the figures of those co-operatives; there is a single place where you can count how many litres were sold and who sold what. How do people form co-operatives? That is also a fundamental necessity if people are going to market their milk. Those fundamental foundations that are required for any development are absolutely necessary in those places.I want to support hon. Shill when he says that when we have plenty of milk across this country - we have seen milk being poured - we must turn it into powder and use it during the shortages. Why do we have a national grain reserve for maize and beans instead of a national food reserve that can preserve meat and milk in order to help our farmers across the country to increase the prices that need to be increased?"
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