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    "id": 578010,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Saney",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2988,
        "legal_name": "Ibrahim Abdi Saney",
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    "content": "our institutions. We are in a time when our institutions must mature and they should be independent of any political manipulations and any other side shows. The appointment of the Chair is not very clear. It gives the appointment entirely to the Cabinet Secretary which means he can use the chance to suit his own individual whims. On the membership too, there are no clear criteria on selection of Board members. It would have made better sense if the Chair is elected by the membership. What the Cabinet Secretary should be able to do is just to constitute the membership and thereafter they are the ones to appoint their chair. That aside, this Mediated Report and the principal Bill in itself are good legislations for this country. I believe agriculture is the economic mainstay of this country. The fact that the 2010 Constitution has guaranteed the right to food security there is one mindset though, whenever we talk of animal foodstuffs, most Kenyans think that we are talking of animals under zero-grazing. We have a substantial number of livestock in Kenya’s arid areas that are in free range. It is time when we toured the services to those remote parts of the country so that we can also assist those Kenyans who have been marginalized for years. Even the principal suggests the creation of a Fertilizer and Animal Foodstuffs Authority- a State corporation. We are a little bit extravagant in legislation. Every piece of legislation is trying to come up with a structure that is too expensive. We are putting more burdens on taxpayers. It would have made some sense logically if these matters are managed within the main Ministry of Agriculture. They should be handled as a secretariat within the Ministry than coming up with structures, boards and many other staff who will burden the taxpayers more. With those few remarks, I support."
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