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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Washiali",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I was making a very important point. I was saying that as a country, and as Parliament, it is high time we separated these Ministries and placed them where they belong. The production Ministries have to produce, so that the other Ministries that are geared towards giving service have the necessary funding that enables them to operate. For example, I regard the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries as a ministry that is for production. If we cannot fund the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries we shall forever buy food. This is why the Budget and Appropriations Committee has chosen to deal with the problem, instead of preventing it. We had said that we wanted the Galana Scheme, which was launched by the His Excellency the President the other day, in the month of January--- We had proposed that the Kshs3 billion that had been removed from the National Irrigation Board be returned, so that programmes that the Jubilee Government has put in place should be realized. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Budget and Appropriations Committee chose to give money to buy food from outside. I want to assume that the food that has been budgeted for--- The acquisition of strategic food stocks has money that is going to import more food. How do we reason? I would have imagined that more money should have been put into producing food as opposed to money being given to import more food to take care of this strategic grain reserve. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I do not know what we are going to do. What do we do with the driers? We have driers that are under construction, and that have not been completed. We had set aside some money to address that, but no cent has been given. We have an on-going project of slaughter houses in most of the ASALs, and no money has been provided for them in the Budget. We have the Kenya Meat Commission, which is actually collapsing. I do not know whether it collapsed out of corruption or not. However, the Cabinet Secretary had told us about the programme he had put in place, so that we could revive the KMC once and for 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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