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    "id": 725210,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wangamati",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Wangamati",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. As a country, we must respect our farmers. This House must show dairy farmers that we support livestock and livestock products. Hon. Deputy Speaker, you will agree with me that in Kenya, we have good livestock for meat, but people are now slaughtering donkeys for us to eat. Our livestock can produce enough meat for Kenyans, but because of mismanagement at the KMC, we have insufficient meat supplies. Our livestock sector is not catered for and people are sneaking donkey meat into the market. Watu wanaingiza nyama ya punda na ya mbwa kwa mahoteli. This is very bad. We tell Kenyans, young men and those who are doing business that, as a country, we do not consume donkey meat. They should understand that Kenyans do not consume donkey meat. We have a lot of land in this country. We should supply water to northern area of this country. I can see the Member for Samburu and he will agree with me that we only need piped water to go up to Samburu, Marsabit and Garissa and we will get plenty of quality meat for our people to eat. I am speaking with a loud voice because I do not want my children to eat donkey meat. The Government must employ more veterinary officers or train Kenyans on how to treat livestock. Many diseases kill livestock in this country. I do not know why our scientists cannot discover medicine to treat the various types of livestock diseases in this country. We have a disease called East Coast which kills many livestock in the western region and the Government is not dealing with it. This is a very important Bill and I ask the Members, who know the good language, to speak about this. My fellow elder from Nyanza can speak better on this. Let us condemn those who do not consider livestock as a contributor to our economy in this country. Let us support areas which are good at livestock rearing. The Government should channel money to these areas, so that we can get plenty of meat to even export because meat is consumed everywhere. With those few remarks, I thank you for the chance you have given me, but I want all the Members to support this Bill and look for ways to put pressure on the Executive to know that we need plenty of quality meat and not donkey meat. I support the Bill very strongly."
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