16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
We must also ask our governors what happened to extension services. When I was growing up, and you do know at some point in your life when you were stationed in Homa Bay County, that my father had one of the biggest herds of cattle which when they were crossing the road there would be traffic jam on the road between Mbita and Homa Bay.
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
Growing up regularly, and I am not a dynasty, I am a hustler, we would have extension officers come home. There would be mass cattle dips. The entire village would come with their cattle and they would be dipped so that the ticks and the tsetse fly could be eradicated.
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
We would have extension workers who would come regularly, vaccinate and inoculate the cattle. When you left office as a livestock Principal Secretary (PS) and when the county governments took over, we have never seen those people again.
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
Farm mechanization, almost every now governor buys a fleet of 50 tractors and then employs his former thugs, to be the drivers and turn boys of then those tractors
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
disappear. In fact, for the case of my county, when the Governor bought the tractors, he gave them to his former boys. Those boys would go for one week just robbing all over, ploughing and picking cash. At the end of the day, they would bring in a thousand or two thousand shillings and surrender it to the county government.
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
There has been a serious failure by our devolved governments and I hope that this Senate in its next life will prioritise some of the concerns that have been raised by Sen. Khaniri.
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
Even most of us, whether we like working from rooftops like Sen. Cherargei, or whether we like working from offices like some of us from the Azimio side, let us give our young people the right prescriptions. Wheelbarrows are not solutions to that lack of interest to agriculture, neither are handouts and regular payments that we are giving out to our young people. Our young people want to be empowered. They want to go the bank to get money that has come from their sweat and not money that has come from State agencies.
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to challenge most of us here since we are some of the biggest campaigners out there from rooftops and others that let us tell our young people the truth that their success is not going to come from pushing wheelbarrows or wheel carts or expecting the Government to give you some handouts. It will come from hard work. That hard work must be backed by the right policies from the Government.
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
I support this Statement and I also thank Sen. Khaniri for bringing it before this House.
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