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    "id": 450966,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/450966/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "There is an amendment in this Bill touching on the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority Act also known as the AFFA Act, No.13 of 2013. I am sure the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives will need to look at it. This Bill seeks to amend that Act in order to remove fisheries from the purview of this Act. I am not seeing the Member for Suba, mheshimiwa Mbadi here. During the Tenth Parliament, when this law was before this House, those of us from the pastoral communities refused the inclusion of livestock in this Act. So, we removed livestock. Now, somebody somewhere wants to remove fisheries. So, the people who come from areas near the ocean, the lakes and artificial fish ponds which I saw in Othaya--- I want to congratulate the Supreme Court for upholding the election of mama Mary Wambui, a great leader. I want to thank the Supreme Court for allowing our mother to be in the House. Finally, there is the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Act, 2013, No.17, which the Bill proposes to amend to remove livestock and fisheries from the purview of the Act and make other minor amendments. So, this is a small Bill. But it has small pieces of amendments to a number of principal Acts that this House and previous Houses have passed and enacted into law. I urge my colleagues that we deliberate on this Bill, take it to Third Reading, finish with it and it goes to the Senate. I hope that this is not as controversial as the Division of Revenue Bill and will not necessitate a mediation committee. The two Houses should agree on it. I ask the Chair of the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, now that he could not move his Bill, to second the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, No.33 of 2013."
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