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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. When I rose yesterday and discussed the importance of this Bill, even the Minister for Tourism agreed with me that for us to continue enjoying tourist destinations, we need to be assured of the quality of meat, eggs and other things that we produce. It is for this reason that I need to be a bit brief so that he can also tell us how the beef industry, the milk industry and the pork industry will benefit from enhanced tourism industry. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in our view, the title of this Bill should read: “The Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Para-Professionals Bill”. This is because para- professionals without specifying who they are does not add up. Indeed, Section 17 of this Bill specifies that it is a Veterinary Para-professionals Bill. I believe that this and many things which I will mention in this House will be dealt with at the Committee Stage where we will be able to move those amendments. I take exemption to the membership that out of the eight listed members of the Board; only one is a veterinary para- professional. This means that the Board is dominated by veterinary surgeons, as it stands. Also cutting through the whole Bill, you realize that they have deliberately, for reasons the hon. Minister may wish to tell us, avoided veterinary pharmaceuticals. We have pharmacies which are run by veterinarians. This time around, we have people called agro-vets who dispense each and everything, including crop residues, crop pesticides and"
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