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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in my county, there are many livestock traders because livestock keeping is the main way of life. However, the market is not organised. You will find someone in the bush trying to buy some livestock for sale, but the next day, he is absent. This is because there is no support. If they are organised and have capital with proper markets developed, a livestock trader can easily move from one step to another. One day he could be doing it on foot. The next day, a trader can buy a motorcycle. Finally, he can own his vehicle to ferry animals. This is an important way of developing our potentials, industries and making sure that Kenyans move out of the poverty brackets we usually talk about. We can easily get out of the poverty line with the support which we provide to Kenyans. The handicraft men and women who make beads and sell to the locals and tourists need to access markets; without which, it will end up as a hobby for them. Therefore, we need to have this kind of an authority which will provide a market for them. In that way, they can grow and have many Kenyans who will rely on their own initiatives. We will have a developing country. In the case of the livestock-beyond the MSEs, it needs to be developed in a way. As one of the Senators said, we experience perennial droughts and because of the lack of markets, a herder will keep a big herd and when it comes to the dry season, he will lose the whole of it and start all over again. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if there were proper markets and facilitation, then they could sell the animals when the body condition will allow them to fetch good price. They will restock during the rainy season and repeat the business cycle, unlike what they practice now. That will require livestock traders to be supported so that the herdsmen will also have the markets to sell their products. It should be a reliable market. The Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) has never been a support to the livestock traders. Therefore, if the livestock traders are well supported, they can have somewhere to sell the animals. I support and I hope that the authority, once these amendments are put into place, will go out of its way and ensure that what we are discussing here is put into practice. We hope it will not be like any other authority in Nairobi. We do not want to see Kenyans struggling on their own without any support from the Government."
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