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    "id": 945819,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mavoko, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Makau",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Makau King'ola",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance. This country needs its livestock products to be well marketed. I want to remind this House that Botswana had its meat commission commissioned in 1965 and they came to Kenya to learn about meat processing, meat products and issues to do with the quality of meat. Today, Botswana is the leading exporter of beef and animal products. We have one problem in this country. We establish new authorities and ignore the existing ones. I will remind this House about the Pyrethrum Board of this country. A few years ago, Kenya used to be the lead producer and exporter of pyrethrum. Today, pyrethrum and the Pyrethrum Board are history. They are gone. They are dead. Even the coffee and cotton of this country is dead and yet we had legislation in this House introducing new authorities. Let me cite the KMC as an example. I sympathise and have pity on it. We know that KMC is one of the oldest commissions in this country. As we grew up, KMC was the crème de la crème of companies and anybody in this country could have wanted to work for it. The only closest competitor was the KCC. I have a lot of respect for the Mover of the Motion, but we can ask ourselves a question. If we introduce a new authority that will market the products of livestock, where are we putting KMC? We have had CSs who have come in this Government and instead of reviving KMC, they run parallel meat companies that, as I spoke earlier, supply beef. For example, our KDF and the National Youth Service (NYS) are not buying meat from KMC. The other day when we had the NYS scandal, we saw a kilo of meat being bought at Kshs620 while at KMC it is only at Kshs380. Where are we going to do government to government spending? If we approve this Bill, I can tell you it will be a sure way of killing KMC. As a representative of KMC which sits in my constituency, I cannot stand here and accept this Bill to go through. Why? This is because as a Government, we are supposed to look at what is killing KMC. These sideshows…"
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