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    "id": 947882,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/947882/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo North, KPP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hassan Hulufo",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Oda Hulufo",
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    "content": "2016, His Excellency formed a board using the provisions of the State Corporations Act. In that Executive Order, the CEO of that board is clearly stipulated to serve a four-year term which is renewable. I would like to see us considering specifying the term of the CEO. Marketing of livestock involves sale of live animals. We export many live animals to the Middle East countries. We also export products like meat and milk. But, as I have already said, as far as dairy products are concerned, the only problem we have is that it focuses on milk production from dairy cattle. Today, we have a lot of camel milk which is being marketed. We also have goat milk which is being marketed. The bulk of camel milk comes from ASAL but, unfortunately, the Kenya Dairy Board does not focus on promotion and marketing of camel milk. Therefore, when we pass this Bill and it becomes operational, I am sure we are going to address these bottlenecks in terms of marketing livestock and livestock products. We do not need to confine ourselves to cattle and dairy products. I would like to assure our counterparts from other parts of the country that when we talk of livestock, poultry is part of it. Therefore, our colleagues from Western should rest assured that this is a Bill which is not only going to cater for people from ASAL, but others who keep other types of livestock. Bees are also part of livestock and we have a huge potential in ASAL for bee-keeping, which is not fully utilised. I hope that when this Bill is passed into law and the board comes into place, it is not going to confine itself to cattle. It has to take care of all the species of livestock from bovine, caprine and equines, which includes horses, donkeys and bees."
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