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    "id": 451040,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/451040/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset I want to say that I am opposing this Bill. If the Leader of Majority Party of this House has said that he does not have confidence in it and he has put his signature on the same Bill, what business do I have to support it as a member of the Opposition and my role is to watch what the Government is doing? However, having said that, that is not the main reason why I want to oppose this. I want to go to the very fundamentals of the amendments to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act. If you want to go through all of them, they fundamentally affect how the counties are being managed at the moment. They fundamentally affect the ordinary farmer on how he is doing his business in the rural home. So, when you look at the Livestock Act that they want to amend, with a stroke of a pen, the Wildlife Research Institute is gone; the Fisheries and Marine Institute is gone and the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute is gone. How do you get rid of so many organisations without even thinking that there are people who work there? Are we here to take care of the welfare of Kenyans? So, that is why I am saying that when you want to look at this, we should be careful. Come to agriculture and there is a section that they are saying that the Minister that is responsible for agriculture will not allow exports of cashew nuts or raw materials of cashew nuts, macadamia and he even can ban the export of miraa . What exactly are we doing? How do we pass this as the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya without even giving the price that the farmer is going to earn? How do we give someone arbitrary powers when as I speak today in my area sugarcane has not been taken to the factory because we have got cheap imported sugar? So, it does not really make any sense that this House, as we sit here today, can pass rules and amendments coming in the name of miscellaneous amendments. How can they be miscellaneous when we are going to change how we form urban centres? How can it be a miscellaneous Bill when we say the Transition Authority is going to be abolished? How can it be miscellaneous when these are very fundamental issues which touch on the ordinary Kenyan? I come from Kisii The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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