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    "id": 670393,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for an opportunity to contribute to this important Motion by my good friend, Hon. Rose Nyamunga of Kisumu County. This Motion is coming at a time when the fishing industry in Kenya is facing serious threats. It has faced serious threats before, but right now the threat it is facing is even bigger. This is a contradiction of sorts because our country has thousands of nautical miles of sea front. It has access to the second largest fresh water lake in the world and has very large inland water bodies and over a dozen permanent rivers. All these are massive opportunities for development of a viable aqua industry which Kenya has not done. The fact that Kenya with such abundant aquatic resources has one of the list developed blue economies in the world is, in my view, a thorough indictment of successive regimes of this country for the last 50 years. Indeed, it becomes a major concern that our aquatic resources are so underdeveloped to a point that now we seem to think that the solution to our problems especially with regard to feeding our people on fish lies on importing fish of doubtable quality from China. Why, for example, after so many years, do we not have institutions of higher learning up to university level in Kisumu, Mombasa and Malindi which are dedicated to training on aqua technology and its culture in general? This is a need for worry. I believe if the Government wanted to do this they would have done so. As we debate this Motion - I am glad it is coming at a time when none other than the Chief Executive of the State of Israel is visiting our country. The State of Israel is virtually a desert nation but one of the things it is notable for is that it feeds its own people. I have said it here before. Kenya cannot hope to be a developed country when every year we go out with begging bowls on matters food and we cannot feed our people. Many of our people’s daily struggle is on how to feed themselves."
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