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    "content": "know where to source for the fertiliser at competitive prices. If the demand, locally, increases, we will get others who will find it prudent to have a factory within the country. The location of that factory will be demand driven. It will be located where most of the customers will be. When it comes to the management of that, I am sure that counties through county assemblies will be better placed to come up with better legislation at that level to manage the distribution of fertiliser. This Bill is coming up with a Board to regulate importation and distribution of fertiliser. According to the Act, this Board has to establish directorates or departments which will be regional centres of the Board to deal with specific matters. Establishing a new board at this time when we are moving out of the central system is not right. The established ones like the NCPB which have outlets all over the country have failed in distribution and will spend the next few years trying to set up this kind of a board. We will employ people but there will be no benefits from it. Those will just be input costs. This will also increase our wage bill. This not only goes to devolution but also affects structuring which should ensure a lean public sector which can deliver at a minimum cost. We will only be adding costs without any inputs. When it comes to setting up a factory using this kind of a set up, we all know that we have been arguing about the Ken-Ren which was a ghost fertiliser factory which we have been paying for. I cannot stand that kind of system where we allow a public institution to come up with a factory which will not compete with the private sector. I oppose this Bill and say that we should assist the county governments in coming up with legislations at their own level to control the functions of crop and animal husbandry production instead of coming up with boards considering that the ones which have been more specific like the Tea Board of Kenya and the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya have failed. These boards have been dealing with specific real crops and were not created to give an input into the crop production. I oppose the Bill as it is."
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