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    "id": 720382,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "I want to bring to your attention that, as the stakeholders in this industry, we need to make sure that we must have two stakeholder representatives in the membership of the board, and it should be a rotational system. We must have, at least, two pastoralists from pastoralist areas or counties. They must be included in that board because they know the problems of pastoralists. The combination we now have is more of academic qualifications with no experience at all. You should have somebody who knows where the shoe hurts. Thus, you must put people who are purely pastoralists. Somebody may have a Master’s degree in agriculture or livestock, but he has never seen a donkey in his life. So, I want Hon. Adbinoor to consider those changes. Putting a Master’s degree as the qualification for membership to this board will exclude some people from the leadership of the board because there are very few pastoralists who have Master’s degrees. I do not think that a Master’s degree can make somebody to be a good producer. So, we need to lower the qualification. We must include experience in that industry so that we can accommodate pastoralists in larger numbers who are affected. Finally, as pastoralists, we are not debating this Bill on political affiliations. We want Members of this honourable House to debate it knowing that the pastoralists of this country are suffering. We need to put away political affiliations and support it so that pastoralists of this country can get jobs and have their products exported so that they can have purchasing power and they too can be proud of this country. I support. Thank you."
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