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    "id": 90893,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/90893/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 97,
        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "With regard to Kenya Veterinary Vaccines Production Institute (KEVEVAPI), everybody knows epidemiology; that is the science of how diseases spread. All of us can be wiped out today – and God forbid - by an outbreak of a certain disease or another. Most deadly diseases are actually viral. Viral diseases can be controlled through a vaccine production programme. We have an institution which has a capacity and ability to do the vaccines for this country. A few years ago – about two or three years ago – we had an outbreak in the small stock sector. We continue having all types of flu like avian and others. Again, some of those things should be taken as a national emergency to the extent that people asking for money to improve on the vaccine production capability should not be a debate in this House. We should afford that luxury because we have the infrastructure to allow those hard working officers - I understand the Institute has also been denied the right to recruit younger ones--- All of them may be phased out by time if they are not urgently attended to over the next couple of years. That is because some of my colleagues then are still serving in that Ministry and we are talking about 30 or 40 years ago. Without the recruitment of staff, the Ministry dies a natural death. This Ministry is unfortunate enough; it is really vulnerable. Every time you want to merge Ministries, the first one to go is the Ministry of Livestock Development. Every time you want to split, the first one to be split is the Ministry of Livestock Development and it leaves all the resources there. Every time you want to build new Ministries, again the Ministry of Livestock Development is the one you make sure that it is under-funded. That cycle goes on and on in spite of the fact that, even the skeleton bit of it is still doing 12.5 per cent of the GDP."
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