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    "content": "these animals. It is important for the Government to be innovative and insure all animals, so that in the unlikely event of a drought wiping out our animals, restocking will be guaranteed at a lower cost to the Government. This is because the insurance companies would then take the bill of restocking of these animals. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to see a situation where we have a lot of research in the kind of animals that we keep amongst the pastoralists. Hundreds of years since science visited the continent of Africa, we still have our farmers keeping what I call in Kakamega, shenzi cattle. You keep a cow for five years before it hits even 80 kilogrammes. We need to do proper research, so that the fast-growing breeds are the ones that are kept our livestock farmers. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would to speak to the issue of infrastructure. It will not just be enough for us to set up these abattoirs all over the place. You must set up infrastructure that will make sure that the products will be easily and cheaply transported to the respective markets. I have in mind a situation where in our lifetime, when you have leadership of a country that feels for its people; a President who is in touch with the reality on the ground and not one who thinks that the priority of the people in Kakamega is a laptop, he will know that having created those abattoirs there, you also want to follow it quickly with a modern international airport, that can then be used to receive large cargo aircraft that can take these products to local, continental and other international markets. If it has to be profitable, then the famous standard-gauge railways that we are all talking about these days should not be limited to Mombasa, Nairobi and Busia. It should also go to those areas, so that when a farmer is transporting his animals, he does so cheaply and has got maximum returns. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, under the issue of infrastructure, it is important that we have good roads going to North Eastern and Eastern parts of the country, to enable farmers to move their produce. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I did not know that I would speak for so long. I want to take this opportunity to donate some of my time to Prof. Lonyangapuo. I beg to support."
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