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    "id": 725180,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/725180/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to support this very important Bill. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives. This Bill has been a subject in that Committee even at this time when we are making the Supplementary and the main Budget. Kenya has many ASAL areas where livestock rearing is done. We do not have stocks when we compare ourselves with Botswana whose systems were actually developed by Kenyan experts. In Botswana, they even know the number of livestock they have. Right now, they have six million cows. In Kenya, we are not very sure, but we estimate them to be at 17 million and most of them are for meat. The main target of this law is marketing. Previously, we had the Ministry of Cooperative Development and Marketing where many farmers were in cooperatives. It is not just about the meat, it is also about other livestock products. They are very many. We have skins and hides which were marketed in cooperatives, but now things have changed. There are private companies, slaughter houses and the KMC which for now is a total disaster. Our Committee visited it and it is currently underfunded and the management is very poor yet it rests on very valuable land."
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