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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chumel",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Chumel Moroto",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to join my colleagues in thanking the Member who brought this wonderful Motion. I support what others have said. I come from Kapenguria. In Kapenguria, there are about three or four good permanent rivers where fish is in plenty. We also have Turkwel Dam which is big and has very good fish. However, the harvesters are not there. Members have mentioned Kalokol in Lake Turkana, which around the early 1980s had plenty of fish and very good cold storage facilities. It was like a processing factory. It is now a skeleton. There is nothing in that place. You will find that those people whose livelihoods used to depend on the fish have now become poorer and poorer. They are moving away, especially the youth, as the Member for Othaya said. These were young men who were engaged in that place but because there is nothing anymore, they have to go round looking for something that can engage them so that they can get food to feed their children and themselves. There are departments in Government that deal with fish. It is high time this department came up and heard the cry of Kenyans. As we sit here and talk about fish, our minds run to Nyanza. We think that this is a Luo issue. When we talk about cattle, our minds run to the 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."
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