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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. Let me take the initial initiative to thank my colleague, Hon. Abdinoor Mohamed, for coming up with this idea. When you come to this Parliament, each and everybody comes from different parts of this country and they know the problems which bedevil their communities. Hon. Abdinoor, really, had taken quite a thought because he has gone through what is happening today in the livestock industry. This Bill is timely in that we have got so many boards in this country which are managing many other aspects of our economy, and especially the agricultural sector. We should establish one for the livestock industry. It is long overdue. This country, being a developing country and more so, with very limited minerals and other resources to sustain the economy, the country should go out of its way – and even the leadership of the country – to go and tap each and every opportunity which can improve our GDP. In that case, the livestock board will be tasked with that work of ensuring that what we have in the livestock industry is well catered for, taken care of and well managed, so that we can reap an income from the same and increase our GDP. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, cattle rearing in our country has been done through traditional subsistence. That has been prevalent in beef farming, together with the dairy farming that we are doing through zero-grazing in the rural areas. In the North Eastern part of this country, where we have got so many animals, and being the main livelihood of those communities in those arid areas. That industry has been left to the individuals to the extent that people talk about their wealth in terms of animals. However, they cannot tell the value of their animals. Those people view animals as their way of life but, when you look at it critically, the same animals are not benefitting them. When it is dry in northern Kenya, the animals die in thousands. So, somebody could be rich today but poor the following day. There would be nothing left in their compound. All you see are carcasses and bones."
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