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"speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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"content": "livestock farmers? The answer is in the tea board, coffee board and many boards that are geared towards alleviating poverty and suffering of farmers. Tea and coffee sectors are worse off with so many boards. Therefore, the solution to our agriculture and livestock sectors in not in creating boards and institutions based in the public sector. The solution is for us to create an enabling environment as Government for the private sector to perform. We need to avoid over legislation, like what we are doing with this board that is being created by this Bill. Allow me to give the final example beyond agriculture and livestock. In Kenya, if you go to the transport and roads sectors, we have over six institutions with most of them overlapping their mandate. A country like Singapore that we can borrow so much from, has only one body dealing with the entire land transportation - and that includes even the construction of those roads. What I am trying to say is that we must perpetuate the principle of having a lean Government and leave livestock, tea, coffee and all the other kinds of farming to the private sector. Once we create this, even fish farmers will want a board. Once we create this, even potato farmers from Nyandarua will need a board. We are just shooting ourselves in the foot by giving the Government so much work at the expense of the private sector that can do better and efficient business in livestock, fish farming and all the other sectors of our economy. For those reasons and many others that I can give if I had more time, I oppose."
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