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    "content": "communities, along the shores of Lake Victoria, along the shores of Lake Naivasha, Lake Turkana and other smaller Lakes like Baringo and others. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, then came the mania of fish farming where somebody sat somewhere and thought that we have to engage in fish farming and in so doing, we saw some crudity and madness of wild expenditure of public resources. I have said here before that even if you want to do fish farming, go and farm trout on the slopes of Mount Kenya, Mount Elgon or Cherangany Hills but you do not wake up and go to some of our marginal counties including your own, Mr. Temporary Speaker. You have seen empty holes in your county where people started to go and dumped money in a county where the level of evaporation of water is 95 percent. Somebody wants to do fish farming by digging ponds and purporting to put there fish fingerlings and farming fish. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir the upshot was a monstrous loss of public funds. They started fish farming in Mandera, Garissa, Kajiado, Narok and Turkana without caring. That is the culture of our country. When it is time to eat, the eating chiefs must eat, regardless. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the comprehensive statute being debated here has to guide the country. I believe you know that the fishing that goes on in this country has never been harnessed properly to be translated into a serious economic activity. Lake Victoria, the largest fresh water lake in Africa and the second largest freshwater lake in the world, has plenty of fish. The fishing communities around the lake are the poorest people you can come across. There has been no effort to help fishermen earn a decent living from their activities. There has been no effort to help those fishermen market their products. Even as the European Union (EU) is ready to consume fresh water tilapia and other species of fish from Kenya, we have left the management of fishing products to middlemen who want to milk every single drop of blood from fishermen. Fishermen who hung precariously on the lake throughout the night to make a catch land on the landing bays and the shylocks are there waiting to take the fish virtually for free ."
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