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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kingi",
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        "legal_name": "Amason Jeffah Kingi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, indeed, I do appreciate the emotional attachment the hon. Member has on this subject now that he is from this particular area. My decision to come up with this ban is not based on any emotions or any disrespect for the fishing community around Lake Victoria. However, it was based on a scientific research. I will be failing as a Minister if I know that science has indicated that if we continue doing business the way we are doing it, then in the recent future, the fishing community in Kisumu will have nothing to take home. Therefore, as I struggle to safeguard their present, I also need to safeguard their future and the only way I can be able to take care of both is to come up with this measure. However, as I have already said, we are willing to engage afresh on this. As a Ministry, ours is to offer the policy. We will be happier to see fishermen on the shores of Lake Victoria rejoicing because of the catch going up. We are not in any way in the business of fighting fishing communities. Ours is to give them the best environment so that they can have the best from these aquatic bodies. That is why I said that I am very much willing to go down there, sit down with the fishing community and let them appreciate the danger of lifting and/or not lifting this ban. After that we will come up with the way forward together and it will almost be a win-win situation."
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