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"speaker_name": "Mandera North, UDM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Major (Rtd) Abdullahi Sheikh",
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"content": "When I look at this Vote, there is a new programme called National Livestock Development and Promotion Service (NLDPS) Board that has just been allocated a paltry Ksh50 million. This is a new board that was inaugurated four months ago and it needs to take off. Remember, livestock contributes 12 per cent to our Gross domestic product (GDP). Unfortunately, there is no seriousness in ensuring that the board takes off. What plans do they have for that board? There is no point of having a board that has been inaugurated sitting in office without doing any programme. Remember that all of us eat meat. We cannot have lunch without meat that comes from livestock. We have the Coffee Board of Kenya and the Tea Board of Kenya with billions. Why is the livestock sector not given the seriousness that it deserves? Ksh50 million is nothing. This board needs to take off so that it can be operational. I want to hear from the Chair what plans the Committee has in the subsequent budgeting process so that the board can take off to ensure that the livestock sector is well taken care of."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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"content": " This is a policy issue. I do not think it is for the Chair of Budget. Where is the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock? Order, Hon. Member. Just sit down. Hon. Member, you cannot do that to the Chairman of Budget and Appropriations Committee and yet you know that these Budget Estimates come from the committees. I think decorum is very important here. Let us have the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee comment on it."
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"speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Chairman, thank you very much for that protection. Indeed, this is a policy issue. I must say that it is unfortunate that, that Board has not been properly funded to function. They had asked us for about Ksh500 million, but we were only able to give them Ksh50 million to begin their activities. I am sure that in the successive budgets, we will be able to see what we can add. I want to confirm to the House that the Board has Ksh50 million in this Budget. We believe that is enough for them to begin operations. Thank you."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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"content": " Hon. Members, you have a minute each, please."
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"speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. This is a very important issue…"
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"speaker_name": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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"content": " But give it a minute. Do not go beyond."
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"speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
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"content": " Allow me this, Hon. Temporary Chairman."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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"content": " I will not allow you more than a minute."
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"speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
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"content": " Okay. This is a very important issue. I want to confirm to the House and the pastoralist community of the Republic of Kenya that this morning, we had a serious discussion with the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning on the same. Hon. Temporary Chairman, you are aware that the Bill was passed in 2013, but the Board was operationalised four months ago. You cannot just understand why it took over 10 years to operationalise it. Secondly, Hon. Temporary Chairman, I know that even where you also come from, there is Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 which is in operation somewhere in the National Treasury and Economic Planning. I want to assure you that we are not going to let this go. That Board must be funded. We will do whatever it takes to make sure that, that Board takes off. I am glad to report to the pastoralist community that we have had a serious undertaking from the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning, Hon. Mbadi, this 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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"speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
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"content": "morning, and we will still meet him again next week on Wednesday to deliberate on this. That Board must be funded. That is the long and short of it."
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