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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I described him because we talked about fertiliser a few minutes ago. I sympathise with him because of the challenges we face due to fertiliser shortage. If we establish our own fertiliser plant, we can sort the challenge of fertiliser shortage once and for all. If we have our own plant, fertiliser prices will go down and fertilisers will in turn be affordable for Kenyans. This can also improve the living standards of our people, who are crying due to lack of school fees. Our current economy requires some people to engage in business and others to engage in serious farming, so that they can get money to pay school fees. This can be improved by having a fertiliser manufacturing plant in our country that can create more jobs and generate income for our The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "people. Some parts of the country get short rains and with fertilisers, they can plant crops that thrive under the short rains and get a good yield, which will improve their living standards. The only form of employment in most parts of the country is farming. A large percentage of Kenyans are farmers. Most retirees go back to their villages to engage in farming. We need to encourage this because when people go back to their villages and engage in farming, we decongest the city. That will also help with rural-to-urban migration. We need to start decongesting the city. People should migrate from the city to the villages. People come to the city to look for jobs, but there are none. However, if they go back to their villages, they can engage in farming and earn something. That can encourage people to go back to their villages. This is one way of preventing rural-to-urban migration. We have good institutions in our country, including our universities, which can do good research to improve the quality of machines and chemicals we need to make good fertiliser, which will improve farming in the country. I support the Motion and urge all the Members of this House to support it because it is very important to our country and it will also help our youth."
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"content": "(Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai): Hon. Caleb Luyai, Member for Saboti."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also add my voice to this very important Motion. I did not want to interrupt my very good friend, Hon. Kimilu, when he mentioned me, but I can assure him that he has no power to carry my burdens. I heard him pitying my situation in Trans Nzoia. He has no power. Only God has the power to carry all my burdens. In the very first sentence of this Motion, the Mover is aware that the Fertilisers and Animal Foodstuffs Act, 2015, provides for the regulation of fertiliser importation in the country. He also notes that the Fertilisers and Animal Foodstuffs Board regulates the fertiliser and animal foodstuffs industry, including the manufacture and production of fertilisers. So, we are aware of the existence of legislation, Acts, and policies. There are a number of Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs) that have been established in the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. The Ministry has one of the largest numbers of SAGAs among the ministries in the country such as the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) which was formerly the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), and the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) that has several departments for each crop. They have departments for pyrethrum, maize, sorghum, cashew nuts for those from the Coast, sugar, tea, and coffee, all under one umbrella of AFA. I can go on and on. Very many departments have been established, some on the crops side, and others on the animal side. We are blessed with fauna and flora as a country. We are supposed to be food sufficient since agriculture was established as the backbone of this nation. Looking at our colonial history, when the British colonisers arrived here, they did not single out Kenya as a mineral destination. Kenya was neither a gold-rich nor an oil-rich nation. The British established a colony in Kenya because they discovered it to be an agricultural-rich nation. We have since moved out of that sector. Agriculture is no longer the backbone of this republic. We are moving to other economic frontiers. However, you cannot stand strong as a nation if you are not food sufficient. The superpowers are strong. Russia has held Europe by its neck or balls because of being food sufficient. Ukraine has become the centre of a global war because of being a food- sufficient nation. You cannot become a superpower without being food sufficient. Kenya prides itself on being part of the East African hegemony. But we can no longer flourish in the past glory of being part of an East African hegemony because we neglected our very backbone that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "made our economy strong. Fertiliser is at the very centre of the “bone marrow” of our economy, which is agriculture. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries led by Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines were at par, or trailing Kenya in terms of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). They all faced the same colonial masters and were all colonised. What made them move a step ahead? It is not that they suddenly discovered minerals or something else. They emphasised on agriculture, which was their strength, just like agriculture is the strength of most African nations. They improved their production, value addition, and maximised profits from agriculture. Apart from making broad coalitions to cater to their internal politics, just like we have a Broad-Based Government to have a conducive political environment to flourish as a nation, they emphasised on local food production that was sold internationally, the textile industry, and bureaucratic institutions that ensured there was no corruption and cabal systems, which have always been our problem as a country. We need not overemphasise legislation on fertilisers. We have enough legislation. It is good this Motion proposes a discourse for the nation to discuss where we are going wrong. It should not lead us into more legislation, Bills, and policies. We have enough. We must cultivate the culture of a nation that wants to flourish, develop, and become an international giant. That culture is missing in our top leadership and it trickles down to the line ministries up to the local level. We must establish a culture of proper leadership; good leadership that determines where the nation is, where it was and where it needs to go. Before you start thinking about legislation, which we have in plenty, we need to establish a country that has a right-thinking leadership from the top. If the leadership is rotten at the top, then we do not expect miracles at the bottom. This is not bottom-up, this is top-down. You have to come from top to bottom. I can see my friend looking at me and almost giving a rejoinder, but that is how we will make our country better. We must start from top to bottom in terms of corruption, the rest of the things can be done from bottom to top, but in terms of corruption and making sure that the proper leadership in this country that directs the country in the right way, we must start from the top. I dare say that we have messed this country right from the top and that is where we need to start. When we say that the fertiliser industry has cartels, why are these cartels flourishing without the top most leadership’s intervention? We must ask ourselves those bitter questions. The reason our African nations are lagging behind is because we never discovered what ails us. The Asian countries discovered and that is the reason they are in the category of developmental states which you can call mercantilism, where the trade surplus makes the country flourish. You can call it Marxism, or capitalism, but all in all you must discover the strength of a nation and develop it from there. To me, agriculture remains the strength of this nation and we must promote it. So, the area of fertiliser is not an area that we need to over- emphasise in terms of legislation, this is an area that needs a good culture of leadership. We cannot have SAGAs all over, consuming our natural resources and resources from our National Treasury without any action. We have SAGAs that exist for production, for research. That is where we need start. We do not need to establish another SAGA when one is already in existence whose primary responsibility is for production of vaccines. We have the Kenya Veterinary Vaccines Production Institute (KEVEVAPI), the Kenya Veterinary Board, the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO), and the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS). We can name many of them, but what are they doing? We need to establish and look at what authority formed these SAGAs, why they exist and what they have done so far. If they do not function, then can we merge them or restructure them so that we do not waste too much of our resources towards moribund organisations. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support."
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"content": "(Hon. Owen Baya spoke off record)"
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"content": "(Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai): Is it a point of order?"
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"content": "Okay. Hon. Members, I would like to welcome students from Moi Educational Centre, Lang’ata Constituency, Nairobi County. Hon. Members, help me to welcome them."
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