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    "id": 947842,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/947842/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, EFP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yussuf Adan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13420,
        "legal_name": "Adan Haji Yussuf",
        "slug": "adan-haji-yussuf-2"
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    "content": "There is also manufacturing. A lot of raw materials for manufacturing like hides, skins, bones and blood meal come from the livestock sector. Therefore, if we do not put this Board in place and put a lot of effort on the livestock market industry, then we shall not achieve both the agriculture and manufacturing agenda. I remember very well that in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Botswana Government sent its officers to come to Kenya so that they could be trained in matters of the meat industry. We trained personnel from Botswana. They took all the knowledge from us and went back to Botswana and established Botswana Meat Commission. Today, Botswana Meat Commission exports meat to almost all the European countries and their economy is based on that. We killed ours and now we go to Botswana for benchmarking all the time. The Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock goes every year to Botswana which we trained. It is unfortunate. If we had a Livestock Marketing Board many years back, then that could not have happened. As it were, there is nothing to regulate the livestock sector. That is why we are looking at other people’s industries and development today."
}