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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Chairperson, we received proposals of these amendments from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and we have discussed them at our Committee. The amendments are very simple. They relate to composition of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority. In the amendments under Section 5(1), the proposal is that we delete the word “chairman” and replace it with the word “chairperson” because the chairman could be a man or a woman. Therefore, chairperson is a more inclusive term. The other amendments relate to the inclusion of the stakeholders within the organisation. That is why there is a proposal that we have more farmers’ representatives being incorporated in the authority that was previously the case. You can see there are eight persons being proposed who are farmers representing farmer organisations in major crop sub-sectors. They will be appointed by the Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the Council of Governors. The Council of Governors is being brought in because agriculture is now a devolved function. The authority had previously conceived this Bill which was passed in 2013. The law was seen purely as a national function and there was no representation from the counties. Therefore, with the new eight representatives, the counties will be properly represented. 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."
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