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    "id": 961727,
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    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "On the same note they have been honest in bringing out an aspect which Hon. Mbeo needs to address. There is the fact that he has some outstanding issues with the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). It is important that he moves with speed to ensure that he clears the outstanding issues with the agency of revenue collection in this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on page 15 of the Report, the Committee also addresses itself to the requirements of the Public Officers Ethics Act that was enacted in 2003. Unlike many other areas, the Committee seems to have forgotten to tell us when they bounced the life of Hon. Mbeo against the Act and what they found. They are saying that they considered the provisions of the Public Officers Ethics Act but they have not said whether he met the requirements of the Act or not. I would have been very interested in one area that we seem to ignore. The Act requires that those of us in public offices should not be involved in fundraising or what they commonly call harambees when they are in office. This is a requirement of the Public Officers Ethics Act and it is important that we know that this is something that can also stand in your way of appointment when time beckons. In supporting the appointment of Hon. Mbeo, I think it is important for me to say that in our area of Ndaragwa – you are also my neighbour, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker – we will remain thankful to the former Member of Funyula, Hon. Otuoma. I see the current Member for Funyula is with us here. Hon. Otuoma is the one who thought out of the box and decided to do fish ponds in Mount Kenya region among other areas in this country that are not traditionally known for fish farming. I can tell you that having fish as part of our dishes in the part of the country that we come from, we have everything to thank that former Member of Parliament, Hon. Otuoma. Out of the box, we were able to do very many fish ponds through the economic stimulus programme. What we did not follow was the marketing. It is important that as the chairman of this board, Hon. Mbeo, takes office, he will also need to think out of the box. There is a lot that can be done outside Lake Victoria and the Indian Ocean and not in any way minimise the importance of those areas. It is very important that he comes and encourages fish farming inland, as Hon. Nyikal was saying, for many reasons including creation of employment opportunities. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you may be interested to know that 70 per cent of the infants in Ndaragwa get stunted. These are statistics that I was given less than 10 days ago. It was a very worrying revelation that I was given by the people in the medical profession. Seventy cent of children in my area are getting stunted for the reason that they cannot get the proper kind of food that they need to be fed by their parents. This is one source of nutrients that can really be useful and it can turn the lives of those children overnight if this chairman decides to think out of the box. Since we already have the ponds done, the only thing we need is a little bit of encouragement and rehabilitating them. I am sure we in Ndaragwa and other areas like those will 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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