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    "id": 527545,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you for this chance. I want to start by thanking the Speaker of the National Assembly for finally confirming that bicameralism in legislation can work. I also want to thank hon. Chris Wamalwa who is the brainchild of this Bill. However, I now want to confirm that I am rising to oppose the Bill. Maybe because hon. Chris Wamalwa was not there in the last Parliament, he might not be knowing the history of fertiliser in this country. In 2009, I had an opportunity to move a censure Motion against a Cabinet Minister on matters of National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) and one of the players was the abuse of the importation of fertiliser. I would not be surprised if some of the mandarins I pursued at that time might be coming back wearing a wolf’s skin telling us that they are sheep. Since hon. Chris Wamalwa was not there in the last Parliament, he would be forgiven for not knowing that what he is doing is creating another parastatal. We departed from this in the last Parliament when we created this Act that was signed by President Kibaki in January, 2013. It was one of the Acts he actually signed into law. This was the Agriculture, Fisheries and Foods Authority Act. Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to take the House to what that Act said. It said that this authority shall be the successor to the institutions established by the Act that had been repealed namely; the Crops Act, the Livestock Act and the Fisheries Act. What these Acts had done is that they had created all manner of boards; Kenya Sugar Board, Coffee Board of Kenya, Cotton Board of Kenya and so on. All these boards were in the 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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