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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I can see that hon. Members are very anxious to consume my time. I want to borrow from the triviality and talk of real issues. This Speech lacked real approach on gender. To an extent that if you look at the overall budgetary outlay and the Ministry of Agriculture, for instance, I am glad to be the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives, the labour input by women is actually 62 per cent. This is acknowledged. When you come to specific projects like mama mboga, poultry farming and so on, all those put together fall under 1 per cent. To be precise it is 0.07 per cent. Those are serious issues which should have been addressed. We cannot develop that far towards Vision 2030 if we still continue “enjoying” the people who contribute the labour, 62 per cent. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, real growth can only be demonstrated by change in lifestyle, particularly by people from what we call marginalized areas. I have gone to those areas and nothing has changed. Turkana where the Chair represents is worse than it was in the 1950s. Things have not changed. The President should have introduced Bills that will bring investments in that part of the world, so that these people can grow at our pace. Nothing is more humiliating than seeing a lady carry a baby and an AK 47 gun at the same time, and looking after three or five goats. If it was, say, thousands of goats, it would make a bit of economic sense. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do acknowledge with thanks that the President appreciated the role played by the Alcohol Control Act. I want to thank him for that. I want to tell Kenyans whether they go east, west, north or south or wherever, factors of production remain four; that is labour, capital, land, management and entrepreneurship. Alcoholism will ruin these steps. Any efforts to derail the implementation of laws as seen now in the delay in formulating and gazetting the three sets of regulations which are supposed to have guaranteed the quality management and establishment of the fund and so forth, would do us no good. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of shuttle diplomacy, at least, the Vice-President did it with the authority of the President. I think it is good to appreciate what the late Mwangale said; that sometimes a hyena was talking to a stone. This is what the hyena told the stone:- “I know you cannot answer, but at least you have heard.” The world has heard. They know what is happening in Kenya. What we need now is to strengthen within the context of this Presidential Speech, our security agents and not to bash them left, right and centre. We should be able to have respect for our Commissioner of Police. We should accord reasonable respect to our Judges before even they are vetted. Unless we do these things, we will have a problem. We will have a problem of identity. We will have a problem with our institution which is Parliament. I am urging hon. Members, for now, until we have a vote of no confidence in those institutions, to respect those people who hold the office, including the Chair of this House. I also commend you for your comments on the slow pace of implementation of projects. While supporting that, let it go on record that the new railway line has taken more time on the papers than what the Indians took to do a railway line. With those few remarks, I support."
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