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"speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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"content": "I am aware of a Presidential Directive that was given in 2012 to form this Board. I am not sure if we have not been having budgetary allocations to the same board that has not existed. If it is true that we have been having budgetary allocations to a board that has not existed for all those years, then we are in for a major scandal. This Bill has come at the right time. It aims to exploit the resources that are within the 80 per cent of the land mass of this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as you are aware, 80 per cent of the landmass of this country, which was marginalised via Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965, is a pastoralist region and we have not been able to get value for the millions of livestock that we have and yet, it is a major game changer in terms of the economy in this country if it is exploited. I thank Hon. Maj. Bashir for bringing this Bill, even though I heard that it was also in the Eleventh Parliament. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you were there and I was not but it never saw the light of the day. However, I urge Members that this Bill from Hon. Major Bashir sees the light of the day as soon as possible. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you are called a Major, it is not a mean title to have. This is because majors do not retire and if they do, they do not die; if they die they will not rot and if they do, they will not smell. If they do, they will smell like a rose flower. Our people from the ASALs, that is 80 per cent of the land mass of Kenya, are tired of always being supplicants seeking favours from the Government whenever there is drought and yet we know, if we exploited this resource called livestock, and especially the by-products and not only the meat, our people will be self-sufficient. We will be better than Brazil which exports animal by-products to the rest of the world. This is because Brazil is a tropical country which exports livestock by-products and it is self-sufficient. Here in Kenya, 80 per cent of our land mass, which is occupied by pastoralist communities, can be self-sufficient rather than being always supplicants and seeking favours from the Government whenever there is drought. They receive favours like food from Red Cross because they have not exploited their economic activity fully. Hon.Temporary Deputy Speaker, when we talk of animal by-products, we are not only concentrating on meat alone. In our abattoirs, there is a lot of blood that goes to waste and yet, blood is known to produce the highest quality of fertilisers. It is shameful that in this country, we have such blood going to waste. We are still importing fertilisers using billions of taxpayers’ money to subsidise and yet, the blood from our abattoirs and homes go to waste. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, bones from our animals are thrown left, right and centre. If today you go to Northern Kenya and Narok County, you will see so many carcasses lying idle, even those ones of wild animals. They should have been collected because we have bone meals that are very important in the manufacture of fertilisers and feeds for livestock and dogs. We would be the highest exporters of dog meals because we can be able to crash those The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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