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    "id": 851466,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 78,
        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me start by congratulating the Member for Lamu for bringing such an important Statement to this House. We really need to support this Statement because it has come at the right time. We also thank the President for banning importation of fish from China. We need more stringent measures and more investments put into fish farming. It is very shameful that we import fish at this era and in a country that is blessed with many water masses which include Lake Victoria, Lake Naivasha, the Indian Ocean and so many water masses. We have a long coastline that we could invest in and get more fish. It is shameful we import fish from China. At this rate when we have imported so many materials – the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), labour and now fish from China – we will very soon be importing even kids from China. That is if this is not taken care of. We would like to urge the Government to move from a culture of so much social protection. It is making our citizens look like supplicants always seeking favours to invest in some of these economic activities that will economically empower our communities and youth. It beats logic that we lose Kshs1 billion in a single year to buying fish from China while our harvesting of fish in Lake Victoria is reducing by 50 per cent in the same duration of time. This happens because of water hyacinth and the country not taking real measures in exploration of fish farming. We want the Government to invest more, especially in the coastline where we need more machinery. We have a very big chunk of the ocean that we can fish and meet our demands as a country. If we will not invest on that, the supply and demand curve will come in and find that our fishermen will be out of market. Let the Department of Fisheries put laws on inhibiting importation."
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