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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Munene",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Wambui Munene",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. the Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion for Adjournment. There are some issues which have been raised by hon. Members. When we go home, we are going to meet our people, and also ask the Board of Management of the Constituency Develop Fund (CDF) to release funds, so that hon. Members can get time to oversee implementation of projects under this Fund. There are also a lot of problems regarding security in this country. We know that our Government is trying, but security must start with individuals who are me and you. We want to preach to our people that security cannot be provided by one person, because one person cannot be at every corner of our country. Our country is large. I would like to thank the Speaker and the entire august House for the good work done. As a Member of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co- operatives – I can see my chairman here. We will see how we will do the job to make sure everybody has food security. We ask those who do tendering to do proper procurement. Those people who will get projects like the Galana project of a million acres for irrigation--- We can do a lot of work, so that our people can get food. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other issue is about pastoralists, who depend on animals to live. We know that they have problems and I remember there is a time when I said in this House that we needed to think about them. During dry seasons their animals die, and they have no alternative way of earning a living. What is the Government going do to help them reduce their problems? I suggested that we should think of how to use rainwater to make hay and give it to them to give their animals, because all of us are Kenyans. We also have got problems in the coffee sector, which have led to its price going down. We want to ask our Government to come in and help us find ways of helping the people in the coffee sector. They use their money to give loans to some individuals and we know that. The ordinary mwananchi is looking to this House for solutions to his problems. I am thankful to you for whatever we have done. I know we are now going for recess; I wish every hon. Member a successful recess. We are going to meet our people and take a break from offices as well. I am asking hon. Members to go and preach peace in this country, because Kenya is ours, and we are not going to leave it. With regard to a referendum, we know there are so many ways we can do it. We can amend the constitution in this House. If we go back there and tell our people to go and vote in referendum, it will make them suffer, because we were elected by them and it is just one and half years down the line. Why are we going back to an election mood, 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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