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    "id": 725202,
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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. The reason you see all this heat is because this law is now going to tie up the loose ends. We want our pastoral communities to make profit from their animals. We want to have a proper method of dealing with a situation such as the one facing us now of famine. We know animals are dying in large numbers. We want to see these animals rescued in good time and farmers paid in good time. The insurance should be implemented across board for all the pastoralists, so that if their animals die, they are compensated in good time. They should not get impoverished by systems which do not favour the pastoralists of this country. This House has representatives from 87 pastoral constituencies. In fact, they occupy the larger mass of the country. Even in my constituency, we also rear animals. This law is going to be very useful to us, in that it will enable us to keep animals and market them well. It will also enable us to keep them safe from diseases, so that our meat will be of marketable quality and acceptable in international markets. If that is the case, our meat would be bought by our own Defence Forces and other organisations like the police and prisons. It is important that we consume our own products instead of importing meat from other countries. Hotels here should feel safe to use meat from our animals in this country. That is why we want to market our products locally. Businessmen, airlines and everybody who travels should enjoy our beef. That is why I want to support this law and urge Members of this House to support it. I will be proposing amendments at the Committee of the whole House stage to make this law better, so that it does not conflict with other existing laws like the KMC Act. We want to reform all these laws and that is the duty of this House. We need to ensure that our people benefit from our representation. We should not have Kenyans suffering because of poor management, bad laws or insufficient laws. Everybody who works hard in this country should earn a living and be in a position to take his or her children to school. I beg to support."
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