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    "id": 725213,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Let me talk about the Livestock and Livestock Products Development and Marketing Bill. I am a Member of the Committee on Implementation and we had opportunity to check on the operationalisation of the Livestock Insurance Fund that this Government has already budgeted for and has given some money, which was not enough. In the first financial year - two years ago - they were given less than Kshs100 million. Last year, they were given Kshs300 million and in the current financial year, we have over Kshs500 million. This insurance was supposed to address particularly issues in ASAL areas where livestock was affected by drought. However, for the last two years, not even a single compensation has been done by the company that was given the tender to do so. There was no drought and no animals died. The programme, which has been put in place by the Livestock Insurance Fund is very good, which is supposed to address most of the issues. Through the information they get from Malindi, they are supposed to detect the extent of famine, the affected areas and issue early warnings. Early warnings are very important. The Livestock Insurance Fund has provided some water in some counties particularly in Wajir. They have done very well in terms of trying to address drought-related issues that affect the pastoralists who have a lot of livestock. One of the issues that we realised when we were looking at the implementation status of the Livestock Insurance Fund is culture. Some tribes have a culture where they do not want to release their animals. It does not matter. A person is said to be wealthy by the head of cattle he has or the number of livestock they have in their homes. When we were talking to different Non- Governmental Organisations (NGOs) which try to assist in terms of insurance and marketing, they said that most of the families, because of their culture, did not want to sell off their livestock. You find that a person has hundreds of head of cattle and other livestock and they do not want to release them. They want to continue keeping them."
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