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    "id": 451002,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/451002/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "that Committee, it is true that with the Fisheries Management Bill, it was important that we de-link fisheries from the other areas. That is because fisheries is a very specialized area in agriculture and very important to the people whose fishing is the mainstream of their economies. There is also the question of allowing stakeholders to be represented in the board and it was difficult to determine actually which stakeholders in the agricultural sector would elect their representatives to the board. It would be very difficult. As you know, there are coffee farmers, tea farmers, livestock and fishermen in this country. It would be very difficult to determine who the actual stakeholders are. Indeed, if you ask farmers to sit down and elect people to sit in this board – all the stakeholders from the farming community - this being an agricultural nation, it would be like asking the country to go to another general election to elect people to sit in a board. It was, therefore, important to have this clearly put out in this amendment. It also allows the Cabinet Secretary to have powers to appoint an interim secretariat to serve in the authority pending the appointment of the substantive secretariat. Since this House allowed the commencement of this Bill, it has become imperative that we allow the Cabinet Secretary those powers to be able to appoint an interim team that will run this board and fund the AFFA board before we appoint a substantive secretariat. I will support and when the time comes, I will also be seeking to move amendments to protect the ordinary"
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