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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kigen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 44,
        "legal_name": "Luka Kipkorir Kigen",
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    "content": "Together with that, we also need to address the issue of the dairy farmers. If you look at the cost of producing one litre of milk vis-a-vis the money that farmers get from selling it, you will find that they are not related in any way. In fact, they are putting in more money and getting little every day. This industry is in danger. Therefore, efforts should be made, particularly by the Ministry of Livestock Development, to assist in terms of encouraging them and even proposing subsidies at the very beginning to ensure that dairy farming does not die. It is also a big industry that is employing many people. I come from a cosmopolitan constituency. I have a lot of people from across the country. In fact, most the IDPs who were spoken about this afternoon, and who have been spoken about in the past, are in my constituency. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am inviting the Minister concerned with the re- settlement of the IDPs to visit the area and see the deplorable state in which some of the IDPs are in at the moment. He should ensure that as we rejoice under the new Constitution, other Kenyans are also taken care of in terms of re-settlement and being given sufficient food. I have just talked of a bumper harvest at the moment, but if you go out there, you will realise that the IDPs in that area have no food. They are in tatters. Therefore, I am requesting the Minister responsible that during the recess time, he makes an effort to actually visit that area. He should not visit in a hurry. He should come and spend a lot of time visiting as many IDP camps as there are in the constituency. In fact, in addition to the IDPs, we also have another group of persons whom we are calling “squatters”. We need to make efforts to ensure that these squatters are also considered in future. With those remarks, I beg to support the Motion."
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