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    "id": 670286,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/670286/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 183,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "We are importing fish from China. Lake Naivasha alone can feed this country with fish but look at its decay now. If you go to a beach hotel or any hotel in Mombasa, the sea food you eat is imported. It has always been and yet we have so many kilometers of seafront. You do not hear about it. Ever since I was born, I have never heard the Government of Kenya to which we pay taxes give any bailout money or invest any money in the fishing sector. Now that that is the case, we need to think out of the box. I said in Bomas of Kenya and on the Floor of this House that I do not believe in Nyanza having four counties. I believe Nyanza should have one county because the resource we have is the lake and it needs a proper integrated plan and that can only be done by one Government because, we do not know the boundaries. Those boundaries do not belong to the counties. However, be that as it may, I told my friend Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo that I will never support him for his gubernatorial bid if he does not tell me what he is going to do for the fishing industry. However, if he does he will get my people out of poverty. He will have my vote if he deals with that and the mess in Yala Swamp. The governors in these areas must go asking for votes using a manifesto on what they can do in job creation. It cannot be that these governors are getting monies from the national Government and they are not using it well. They are not generating any income and not investing it in creating jobs around the lake. I used to rear chicken for eggs. The Government has opened its borders. The eggs you eat in the market today are from Israel, Uganda or South Africa. Chicken is the best domestic bird we have because it gives us food. How does the Government expect us to operate if we cannot even have an opportunity to produce our own eggs? We cannot even do a policy on that and we talk about job creation. People talk about technology transfer but you cannot use technology without policy. Technology is to man and not man to technology. All these things we are purporting to want to do with our visitors like it was being said here earlier, are nothing if there is no goodwill from the Government. The Government must be willing to feed its people. This is not a poor nation but it is a badly managed nation. During the Kibaki-Raila era, I thought we were beginning to take off. I do not think the same any more. I think it has decayed and collapsed. It is absurd that the Government can allow fish to be brought from China to be sold to the Luo people, instead of giving the Luo people money to clean the lake, you are killing it. We cannot keep living in a nation that wants us dead. That is what this country is doing to us. So, we need to deal with these issues. I want to appeal to our county governments especially those around the fishing areas whether it is Nakuru, Mombasa, Kisumu and other three counties of Nyanza to know that the Government is not interested in fishing. Please do something at the local level. I support. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}