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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "unemployment rate is approximately 40 per cent. A few days ago, we were told that we are one of the poorest countries in Africa. It does not sound good for the Government to continue clinging on selling things like sugar. Programmes that are run by the Government are riddled with corruption. It is long overdue for our people to benefit from the efficiency that the private sector provides, particularly considering that we have a large pool of human resource that is not employed, and that the production process in our sugar industry is not only low and very inefficient. I support this initiative and hope that our digital Government of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy will set the pace in that direction so that in a few years to come, those of us who have no sugar companies in our counties can partly own sugar companies through the NSE. Hon. Speaker, I am amazed by the kind of Reports that we produce in this House. We are dealing with sugar reports from the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives. We also look forward to dealing with the fisheries report. They all sound good because they tend to touch on the livelihood of many Kenyans. I want to challenge the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives to be proactive in areas outside crop farming and fisheries because a bigger part of our country consists of pastoralists. Therefore, it looks like the Government is biased, given that we have not seen any report on livestock rearing. I have also never heard of pastoralists being given subsidies or loan reliefs by the Government. It is very unfair to many people in this country. We need to see pastoralism as a livelihood for so many Kenyans. This is a matter which should go all the way to State House. We use taxpayers’ money to relieve people of private loans in the coffee, sugar and other sectors. People in Northern Kenya are fully dependent on livestock. They are citizens of this country, who also pay tax. They also need some sort of relief. In fact, there is no parastatal in this country mandated to look into the livestock sector. This bias has been carried forward since Independence. We need to change that direction so that at one time in our country, some livestock commodities exchange trade is done at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) just as it is done in the Chicago Commodity Exchange. That way, our people can also feel the benefit of being in the e-commerce of the current world. With those few remarks, I support."
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