Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 467775,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/467775/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 262,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 447,
        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
        "slug": "john-lonyangapuo"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you. I want to join my colleagues in congratulating Sen. Naisula Lesuuda for bringing this Motion because it touches on a mighty big number of people in this Republic of Kenya. We note that 80 per cent of the land mass in Kenya is inhabited by people who love keeping cows. We call them pastoralists. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I stand to contribute to this Motion, I look at the way we have developed our products in Kenya since 1963. If you can remember when the white farmers came and took the white highland farms, there was even an attempt--- Early in the 1900s, there was a farmer called Delamere and Lord Egerton, who kept very good cows and even had enough milk. They wanted to transport milk all the way from Nakuru using pipelines to Mombasa. That was two farmers, almost 80 years ago, but we lost it quickly when we took over because we never built on that capacity. But we have niche products in certain counties in Kenya which were inherited when the colonialists left. We have cotton which is grown in Ukambani and parts of Nyanza during those days. I do not know whether it is still grown now. Cotton had a parastatal dedicated by this country to look after it for a long time. As for coffee, who does not know that Kiambu was the backbone and the engine where coffee thrived? The Coffee Board of Kenya (CBK) was formed to look after this tree. There is a lot of tea in Kericho, Bomet and other areas. The Government of the Republic of Kenya came up with a parastatal to look after that plant called tea. Maize thrived in Trans Nzoia and so many other places. Money was put in a parastatal called Kenya Seed Company (KSC), where they do research; the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), where marketing is done for one plant called maize. We have another crop called sugarcane grown in Nyanza and parts of western Kenya. There are a lot of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
}