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    "id": 555180,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/555180/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "countries. This Bill will help us to deal with the way we handle our fish products for export. The Government has taken an initiative to protect fishing within our borders, particularly in big oceans like the Indian Ocean. As a Member of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives, we have approved some money to purchase a vessel that can patrol the waters, so that foreigners do not exploit fish in our areas. We will have surveillance, so that whoever is caught exploiting our fish resources is arrested and charged. Therefore, the fact that this Bill seeks to control fishing within our borders is quite welcome. Last but not least, this Bill will deal with aquaculture and will encourage fish farming as an alternative farm activity as I have done in my area. I am very proud because my people in Kwanza have taken up aquaculture and they are now supplying hotels and kiosks in the area with fish. I am very happy because we have exposed them. We took them for training in the Lake Victoria area and they have appreciated that aquaculture is the way to go as opposed to maize farming, which takes over nine months before you harvest. This will give them some income. Therefore, I support the Bill. I hope it will be passed very soon to help our people to generate income. As I mentioned, this is a way of getting the youth and women groups engaged. Therefore, I support the Bill."
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