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"content": "enough food for all of us, as well as for export. For example, where I come from, we have been pushing for the Government to establish agricultural spaces. Recently, Todonyang was invaded by an external militia. For a long time, this area has been proposed for agriculture, but nothing has materialised. Clashes and deaths in that area often stem from Kenyans moving to the Ethiopian side in search of food because the Ethiopian side has exceled in food production. Our Government has not been keen on agriculture, which is said to be the backbone of this economy. Agriculture goes hand in hand with fertiliser production. This Motion brought by Hon. Atandi is long overdue. We need to support it as a House and engage the Government to invite investors. Investors are hesitant to invest in manufacturing in this country mainly due to a lack of incentives. The Government has not opened up to investors or supported them through incentives like other countries do. I support this Motion."
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"content": "(Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai): Thank you very much. Hon. Millie Odhiambo, I will give you a chance because of order of speaking as per our Standing Orders, and to ask others to wait."
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"speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for recognising ranks. However, I know very many Members have been waiting for a long time including my neighbour, Hon. Caroli Omondi. I will try and speak in less than the allocated 10 minutes."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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"content": "Let me acknowledge that we have students from Moi Educational Centre in the House. They are visiting to see how Parliament works. I hope that from the cohort that is here today, very many of them will one day be sitting here in Parliament as Members of Parliament and indeed one of them will one day be the President of this country. Anything is possible for a willing heart."
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"content": "I thank Hon. Atandi, the new Chairperson for the Budget and Appropriations Committee, for bringing this Motion to the House. You have started on a very good note. You are bringing in very good perspectives to the Government. Continue on the same trajectory. What happened recently with the new Government in the United States of America (USA) is what can be described as a double-edged sword. It is a double-edged sword when the administration decided that they will be very centric, meaning they are going to focus on developing themselves. This means very little aid is going to come to countries such as Kenya. It is not only the USA, even the United Kingdom (UK) is also reducing development aid. It is a wake-up call for many African countries. We have very rich countries. We have many resources and if we utilise them well, we can go far. One of the things we have to make sure we do first is to be food secure. That is why it is important for us to have our own locally produced manufacturer of fertilisers. Recently, Parliament gave us a training on Public Private Partnerships (PPP). I wish Parliament could do that for every Member of Parliament and cascade what PPPs are to the whole public so that the public can buy in. Not everything in PPPs is bad. We have not alerted people what it is that made it opaque but through PPPs, we can bring fertiliser plants in almost every constituency and make people food secure. The other issue is that we must leverage on our youth. We can no longer rely on formal employment. We must have many of our young people who can invest in agriculture. We must adapt that and have a rethinking in our youth so that many more can get into areas like agriculture. I like practising what I say. My nephew, whom I have supported very strongly, has just graduated with a degree in agriculture and is becoming a farmer. This is the way to go. As a Government, we need to incubate them, help them, support them, and give finances to support, but we can only do that if we stop pilferage and corruption. I know that my good friend and colleague would not want us to talk about it, but even as we are in the broad-based Government, what is wrong is wrong, and we know what is 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": "bedevilling the country. The moment we own up to what is wrong and what is bedevilling the country is when we will sort out the issues. Are we struggling with corruption? Yes, we are. We must acknowledge and deal with them at every angle right from the presidency to the lowest level. We must deal with corruption so that we can get money available even for free primary education or fertiliser. With those few remarks, I support."
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"content": "(Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai): Thank you very much, Whip of the Minority Party. Hon. Caroli Omondi, Member for Suba North."
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"content": " Suba South."
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"content": "(Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai): Member for Suba South."
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I will also try and be very brief. I rise to support this Motion by Hon. Atandi where he is calling upon this House to resolve that the national Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, promotes local fertiliser manufacturing by investing in research. I would like to focus on the issue of research and why this Motion is important. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I believe we are talking about manufacturing modern synthetic fertilizer; 40 per cent of the cost of fertiliser used in this country has nothing to do with its production. It is basically transportation and port handling charges. In other words, if we produce the synthetic fertiliser locally, it will almost be half the cost of fertiliser in this country because it comes in liquid, solid and gaseous form. Therefore, it is very difficult to handle it. Firstly, let me tell you two stories, so that you understand where the problem is. In 1975, the Government of Kenya entered into a fertiliser manufacturing deal with an American company called Ken-Ren. They formed a parastatal called Kenya Chemical and Fertiliser Manufacturing Company (Ken-Ren). This company then entered into a financing arrangement with two banks, namely, Belgian and Austrian. They then procured two entities, Coupe Lavalin of Belgium and Voestalpine of Austria, to supply manufacturing equipment. The value of that transaction was Ksh350 million at that time, and the interest rate was 8.5 per cent. Three years later, no equipment had been supplied and Ken-Ren went into receivership. The Government of Kenya had guaranteed that particular loan. We ended up paying about Ksh5.1 billion without any fertiliser manufacturing plant being established. I have another story. Two large Japanese corporations were invited by the Government of Kenya in 2015, namely, Toyota Tsusho and Marubeni. Toyota Tsusho was contracted to build Ksh135 billion fertiliser manufacturing plant in Eldoret which is not working. This is the second bad experience. In the earlier case of Ken-Ren, when the company went into receivership, the Government of Kenya went to court in London. It ruled that Kenya was a victim of deceit. However, the suppliers went to appeal in Cyprus and got a judgement against the Republic of Kenya. We paid Ksh5.1 billion for a factory that did not exist. If we do any research, we should ask ourselves how comes attempts to establish a fertiliser manufacturing company in Kenya on two occasions; in 1975 and 2015, failed. We all know that fertiliser is manufactured from urea oil. Kenya does not have commercial quantities of oil, phosphates, potassium and potash. The only component that we have is nitrogen. Therefore, when we are talking about manufacturing of fertiliser, it is important that we understand that we should focus on blending or granulation. In other words, it is importing pre-manufactured fertiliser and then blending it to create products that meet local conditions. The Toyota Tsusho Factory was supposed to produce blended Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium (NPK) Fertiliser, Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) Fertiliser and Calcium Ammonium Nitrate (CAN) Fertiliser, but that is not the case. 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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