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    "content": "are the ones to sit in that Board – I am in the livestock sector and our people are pastoralists - when you talk about stakeholder representatives, how will you conduct elections of such representatives by stakeholders when you are dealing with livestock? We are also livestock farmers in our own way. You can call us pastoralists, but we are livestock farmers. This is an area I want to draw your attention. We also need to look at amendments in the Third Stage of the Committee of the Whole. The other area I want to talk about is the Crops Act where amendments have been proposed on page nine. The amendments – the one I am looking at Section 43 which they are introducing is that a person shall not export raw cashew nuts. A person shall not export pyrethrum, bixa, macadamia and so forth, except with written authority of the Cabinet Secretary. This is not new. These things have been done for the past 20 to 30 years. The kind of authority that has been given by the Cabinet Secretary provides for rent seeking. I know that cashewnuts have had that provision. You cannot export these unless they are processed because we have a processing plant in Kilifi and in Kwale. This also applies to bixa. We all know that quietly, people got something from the Minister and started exporting raw cashewnuts, bixa and those factories collapsed. I know that the cashewnuts factory in Kilifi collapsed several years ago because of that. This is an attempt. Pyrethrum is having the same challenges. We should use pyrethrum to produce our own products like the insecticides and other products. The Government has always reiterated that they are concerned and committed to value addition of our commodities. In fact, this is contrary to what they have always done. These laws are at times made to give an opportunity to a Cabinet Secretary to create bureaucracies for engaging in corruption. That is an area that Members want to know about. Why do we keep on bringing it in and out? Last, with regard to the Transition to Devolved Government Act, the Bill proposes capacity building when a function is transferred by the TA to a county. They must also provide a programme for capacity building. This is a good proposal. The Constitution is very clear that the responsibility for capacity building is for the national Government. They have failed. They have not provided capacity building to counties. That is the reason we cannot transfer some roads or institutions that this Senate has approved. This Bill also suggests that where county legislation does not exist for a function that has been transferred; they can use the national legislation with some modifications which is pretty obvious. When we were dealing with the impeachment of the Kericho County Governor, you will remember dealing with the Public Private Partnership Projects (PPPPs). At that time, we, as a Committee, had to look at the national legislation relating to public-private partnerships."
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