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    "id": 981050,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. As Sen. M. Kajwang' has said, this Bill is quite straight forward. It seeks to ensure that we do the right things and use industrial practices to make sure that people that come on board, who will be stewards of the fish industry, are supported to come on board in the right way. How people are on board is very important on the success of the board and the industry. I stand to support the Fisheries Management and Development Bill (Senate Bills No.22 of 2019). Today, we were taken through what they call a shut-eye economy. We were told that it is an economy where all the fundamentals are wrong, but we pretend that everything is rosy and we just live, borrow and make sure that we live beyond our means. If we want to be serious about our economy and move beyond the shut eye economy to an economy that has the basics or the economic fundamentals, such as the production and factors of production as well as other economic sectors, then we need to start looking at the components of our economy, fisheries, pastoralism and agriculture. We need to do all these things to make sure that our economy is not one where you cannot explain what the numbers are speaking to. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we speak of 5.6 per cent or 5.7 per cent economic growth, and sometimes get ahead of ourselves and talk of 6 per cent growth. Where is that growth if we do not have the sectors that are actually going to support the fundamentals of our economy? The fish industry or the blue economy, as they like to call it, is one of them. Our fish industry is artisanal. We have an array of middlemen running around from production to processing to the exports. It is about time we brought sanity to it."
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