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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Florence Mutua",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Mwikali Mutua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Being a Member of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, I first want to congratulate the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the good job it has done. I want to start with the issue of the Kenya Meat Commission. I want to commend the Committee for allocating Kshs85 million to the KMC for the settlement of pending bills owed to farmers. As a country, we have been talking about food security as one of the pillars. We cannot talk about food security without talking about livestock. When people talk about food security, they only think about crops. We also need to think about livestock as part of food security. We need KMC supported fully and not just in terms of the pending bills. There is somebody in this country who seems to want to privatise KMC. We will not allow this. Moving forward, we want KMC to be fully supported so that it can be fully mechanised and can operate at par with the many countries that we have visited to benchmark. I have been sitting here listening to the Members speaking about NYS, how it is corrupt, how we should deny it funding and how the money should be reallocated to poor counties and constituencies. We are not just talking about the NYS. It is not only the NYS that is corrupt. We have very many departments in this country that are corrupt. Will we deny all of them money? Will we reallocate their money to other areas? Are we losing the fight against corruption? As a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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