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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abdinoor",
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        "legal_name": "Abdi Noor Mohammed Ali",
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    "content": "meat, hooves and all other variables that can be marketed in this country. We, therefore, need to have a body that exclusively deals with marketing just like in the tea, pyrethrum and cotton industries. Currently, nobody knows the meat prices in this country. If you want to sell a carcass, you need to have about five documents for you to export one kilo of meat to Dubai, Saudi Arabia or any other part of this world while in the other sectors, you will only go to one shop and get all your documentation. You need to go for halal certification, a document from Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) and standardization from Kenya. So many documents are required for you to export a single kilo of meat to other countries, which is not common in the other sectors. If you want to export flowers or horticultural materials, you just need to go to Horticultural Crops Development Authority (HCDA) and get all the documents you require for you to export that kind of product to other parts of the world. The main aspect of this Bill is to cure the marketing aspect in the livestock industry. This is in line with an industry which is very important and a main source of income to many pastoralist communities in this country. Almost 95 per cent of pastoralists directly or indirectly depend on this sector. The Government must do something to safeguard the interests of the people who are living in 80 per cent of the land-mass of this country. We need to streamline this sector by establishing the Kenya Livestock and Livestock Products Marketing Development Board. The board’s main dealing will be the concerns of marketing of livestock products only. It is expected that the results will be efficient in the livestock sector. Livestock has many products that can be exported and produced locally in the market. Without realising the linkage, our country will not be favouring the livestock sector. My final remarks on this Bill are these: I request Hon. Members to support this Bill because it will have an impact on pastoral communities in this country. For the last 50 years, successive governments have neglected the sector. They have never invested in this sector. If you see the kind of budget the Veterinary Department and the KMC get, compared to other sectors, you will be shocked. In this season of drought, the pastoralist communities have not been given any incentives. When there is a problem in the cotton or coffee sector, there is about Kshs 3 billion that the Government gives to cushion the people in that sector. The Government has never done anything to cushion the pastoralist community because the British systematically ignored that sector and called it a low potential area. Successive Governments have been implementing those patterns, regulations and policies which were brought by the colonialists. With those few remarks, I beg to move. I would like Hon. Aden Nooru, the Chair of the Departmental Committee Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives to second."
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