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    "id": 721845,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Bill, 2016. At the outset, I support this Bill, but with amendments that I would be proposing. Hon. Speaker, when it comes to the amendment to the Dairy Industry Act, there is a New Clause 23A which states: “There shall be payable to the Board by every producer a dairy regulatory levy at the rate of one per centum of ex-factory price per kilogramme of marketed processed milk and milk products. (b) Despite sub-section (1), a county government may, pursuant to Article 209(c), impose a cess payable to the county government on any milk or milk product produced within the county.” Hon. Speaker, the net effect of this is that if you are taking your milk to a milk coolant and you meet the county government askaris on the road, they will compel you to pay a levy for you to take your milk to the milk coolant. If you are taking your milk, say, from Chepsaret to Mubere in Cheptargai where we have a milk coolant, it means that even those villagers who run the milk coolant in Mubere and its environs have to pay a certain levy to the Dairy Board. The Kenya Dairy Board will get the levy and yet, it has not done any investment. To me, this is punitive to the farmers who are struggling to produce milk and make some money to pay school fees for their children. I think this has been sneaked in and will hurt many small-scale farmers whom we expect to grow. On the Clinical Officers (Training, Registration and Licensing) Act, it is cleaning up and substituting the word “Minister” with “Cabinet Secretary.” The Clinical Officers (Training, Registration and Licensing) Bill went through Second Reading this morning. It is sponsored by Hon. Sang. Our Committee has gone through it and our Report is ready for tabling in this House. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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