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    "id": 961698,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/961698/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laisamis, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Marselino Arbelle",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Marselino Malimo Arbelle",
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    "content": " Thank you. I would really like to applaud our President, Hon. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, for having settled on Hon. Mbeo for appointment as the Chairperson of the Kenya Fish Marketing Authority. I have perused the pages of the Report, looking at the qualifications and experience of this nominee and found that, indeed, he is equal to the task. He has a wealth of experience. He has what it takes academically. Above all, this nominee was also a Member of the EALA at one time. This nominee will become the Board Chair and he is supposed to market our fish. We have Lake Victoria and the only desert lake in my constituency which is called Lake Turkana, which produces one of the sweetest fish in Kenya. Because of lack of marketing, many Kenyans do not know about that particular fish. We heard the other day that many of our people, including high-level individuals, have succumbed to lifestyle diseases. I have also heard the President say that it is high time Kenyans go back to old days where we used to eat organic food. I think fish is one food. With Mr. Mbeo’s appointment, we need to introduce to Kenyans so that they can start eating it on a daily basis. In our cafeteria here people just eat meat every day. I hardly eat in the cafeteria because they do not serve fish. So, it is high time we introduced fish in our cafeteria. One time they were trying to do some comparison between the fish-eating communities and the githeri -eating communities: The Kikuyu versus the Luo. To my surprise, I thought Kikuyus are not used to eating fish. In fact, it became a feast that they were so much happy to have eaten fish and they said that they do not need ugali, meat and githeri anymore. If marketing is done in the fish industry, you can imagine what would happen. Even my community has a myth which says that fish is eaten by poor people, just because they regard themselves as rich men because they have huge herds of cattle, camels and goats. I have also come across a statement that a poor man knows not how to eat with a rich man, because when they eat fish the poor man eats the head. I am fond of eating fish, but the truth is, I have never eaten the head. Maybe Hon. Mbadi, because he comes from a region where fish is harvested and eaten, can teach me how to eat the head. With those few remarks, I support Hon. Mbeo’s appointment."
}