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    "id": 725230,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "We cannot conduct research on livestock or do value addition on our breeds if we do not reclaim the lost holding grounds. That was another big setback. We lost the holding grounds. Those are areas where you can do research, value addition and cross-breeding for the benefit of livestock keepers. But they were all grabbed. Livestock management is a devolved function. The county governments, together with the National Land Commission, should work hand-in-hand to reclaim those lost holding grounds for us to try and improve what we are doing now. I have visited some countries that do very well in terms of livestock and livestock products. Go, for instance, to Australia, New Zealand, parts of England, Botswana and even Namibia. New Zealand is a country with four million people, but it has 40 million livestock. And they make very good use of that livestock. You go to their farms where cross-breeding is done, you get modern and improved breeds. Research is done. Our country has 80 per cent land mass being arid and semi-arid areas. If we do a lot of provision of water--- Water is now a devolved function under the counties and so, it goes hand-in-hand with livestock issues. If we make use of our land, especially the holding grounds reclamation, I think we can go a step higher in terms of getting livestock issues resolved. On the issue of abattoirs, I think it is important that in each and every sub-county, not even a county, the county government, especially in sub-counties that are livestock keepers, need to put up an abattoir. I have one in my sub-county, although it was not done by the county government. It was done by the previous Government of retired President Mwai Kibaki. County governments need to chip in and try to make a linkage between those abattoirs and KMC. I fully support the Member for Mavoko in complaining about KMC. We have KMC, but not enough money has been given to make good use of it. Kshs450 million is small money. To revive KMC, we need Kshs2 billion. The Government should put aside Kshs2 billion into improving that facility. Hon. Deputy Speaker, because I can see you are hurrying me up, let me say something about the board, which I want the Mover to consider. When you talk of the qualifications for one to be in the board--- Under Clause (4), you say a member is not qualified if he or she is a member of a governing body of a political party. I think almost every person in this country, without exception, belongs to a certain political party. That should not bar anyone from being appointed to the board. The law is this: You are appointed and then you resign from the party where you belong. Therefore, I would request that as we go to the Committee stage, you consider those issues of barring people from being appointed to the board because they belong to a political party. What is required is for them to resign and then they take up the job immediately. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to support."
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