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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not think there is enough emphasis on the livestock and farming sector. There was a time we were exporting meat when this country was disease free. We cannot export now because disease control measures crumbled a long time ago. We should revive dips and Artificial Insemination (AI) services. The co-operative societies played a very important role in the management of our resources. I am afraid we have left that sector die and we are not reaping the benefits. It has not been mentioned in this Speech. I hope he will be give it due consideration when he will be forming the Ministries. We cannot be middle income earners if there is rampant insecurity the way it is now. There is a breakdown in our community policing. I do not think it is the number of police officers that we are lacking because there was a time we had even less, but there was security. I think it has to do with the organization of recruitment and deployment of our police officers. What happened with the Administration Police (AP)? That was the community policing organ! The chief used to recruit the AP who used to remain with the chief in the locality. He used to know the geography of the place and could be able to work. We have made them to be ordinary police officers and left nobody in the villages. We can increase the number of chiefs, but they do not have the enforcement arm. We can sack them and employ others, but there will be no security unless we have a Government paid community policing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of development of the middle income earners, we can no-longer depend on one urban centre called Nairobi. We cannot be a middle income country if we do not have so many other Nairobis out there. I think devolution gives us an opportunity to develop our urban centres in the counties. We need to re-plan them to perform that task. With regard to health, the President has good ideas about reducing the expenses that the poor incur in terms of healthcare. Unfortunately, agricultural issues are the function of the county government. It has not been elucidated here how the Government will facilitate the county Government to provide these services. In fact, by abolishing these fees, the revenue due to the county governments will have gone and they need to be compensated. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with regard to energy, for more than 20 years we have sunk a lot of money into the production of geothermal energy and still we do not have enough energy. Maybe we should consider going back to the hydro-electric power plants because those are the ones that have proven to be reliable. The roads in my county are very poor. In Trans Nzoia the major roads leading to the neighbouring countries from Kitale to Suam are very poor. The roads are so poor that farmers have decided to plant bananas on an international road. I am glad the President mentioned the problem of procurement. It is time we moved away from supplier driven procurement to consumer demand procurement. The Government should also go for open tendering. Thank you."
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