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    "id": 720351,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this Bill. For obvious reasons, I want to oppose this Bill. I want to oppose this Bill because the economy of this country cannot afford the luxury of starting up a new board or authority, when we have the Kenya Meat Commission operational. All we need to do, if we have misgivings with KMC is to find ways of perfecting it and injecting more money, putting in proper management, ethical and efficient, so that we can, together, get the envisaged output from that body. I am appalled that, that body is supposed to cater for livestock, when I said, while I was arguing with my very good friend, Hon. Duale, that one of the pledges that the Jubilee Government gave to the many pastoralists was that they were going to ensure that the livestock industry will be insured. As we are trying to close the session and our political elective tour, some Jubilee luminaries are coming up with a Bill to create another authority to take care of livestock, so as to dupe Kenyans that: “Oh! We were not able to do this, but we are now going to do it through this Bill.” I think these Members should wake up and reject this Bill. The economy cannot allow that. More so, there are so many lucrative posts which have been floated. Where are we going to get the money to fund them? Given the experience that we have seen here, is this Budget going to create an opportunity for members of two tribes to share jobs that are going to arise from the execution of this coveted Bill? So, I want to say that it is not a good step. We need to do something about KMC. Spruce it up and make sure that it is a KMC that can serve the interests of the Kenyan citizenry."
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