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    "id": 90901,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Ndeti",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 109,
        "legal_name": "Wavinya Ndeti",
        "slug": "wavinya-ndeti"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you. I stand to support the Motion. First, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Government for putting more money into the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC). But I would like to see more money being put into it. The KMC used to employ many people from my constituency and, as we talk now, there are some workers who are being laid off because there is no money for expansion. I would really like the Minister to look into that because in the first place the factory was put there to try and create job opportunities for my people. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also have the Meat Training Centre in Athi River. There is a lot of land and the Meat Training Centre can also be expanded. We need to expand it for more people to be trained there and also create employment. During the famine, a lot of our people lost their livestock. I would like the Minister to tell us what they will do about restocking. Right now we have a lot of cattle being stolen from our area. Cattle rustling activities do not only occur in the semi-arid areas. It is also happening in our place although not to the extent that it happens on the other side. So, we need to know what the Ministry will do about restocking. We have markets that are not properly built for selling cattle. The Ministry also needs to provide facilities where we can go and sell our livestock. In addition to that I just want to thank the Government again for reviving the KMC. We need more money put into the KMC, so that we can provide employment. We have over 600 people who were laid off from the KMC and they are hanging around Athi River District, thereby posing a lot of security threat. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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