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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I wish to say that I support this Bill. In supporting it, I want to say that Members have spoken to some of the issues that were of concern to me. I would like to say that I am informed the House business decided to prioritise some of the Senate Bills- which is a good thing. However, even as we are prioritising Senate Bills, we would like you to remember that there are also Members of this House who have Bills. And at the rate that we are churning out our Bills on Wednesday mornings and sometimes we do not at all, some of our Bills will be coming up in 2082. Therefore, because Members are putting in a lot of energy, let us also put as much effort on the Members of the National Assembly as you are putting on Senate. One of the issues that the Members are speaking to- which I think, maybe, from experience is coming out is that, originally when the ALFA Bill… Originally, it was actually ALFA Bill which had livestock. When it came as the AFA Bill, those from the livestock area insisted that they wanted the livestock away from the bigger ALFA. Their concern was that the livestock issues were not going to be addressed when you lump them together. It appears then that their concerns were valid because we can see every crop is moving out. I remember in the last Parliament, there was even a Coconut Bill because everybody from every region was concerned about their own areas and the livelihoods from their own areas. The concern at that point was that the focus by the Government then was not enough on specific crops or food issues in those areas. I personally insisted that the original “Fisheries” be removed and we came up with the Fisheries Management and Development Act. I want to agree with what Hon. Mbadi has said. If you look at this Bill, it is skeletal. The intention is good and if you listen to our colleagues from the tea and coffee sectors, they have 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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