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    "id": 103257,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/103257/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to take this opportunity to thank hon. Kaino for bringing this Motion before this House. One of the most critical sectors in this country is the sector of agriculture. Indeed, over 80 per cent of the population in this country is fully dependent on subsistence agriculture. The first point that I want to make is that this House should support this Motion, which in part says; “this House resolves that the Ministry of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, move to set up small holder irrigation schemes of at least 2,000 acres in all constituencies where applicable, so as to facilitate food crop production.” We have in many occasions made resolutions in this House just to be ignored entirely by the Front Bench, who come up with their own Budget proposal to simply re-load and impose the will of Treasury on the people. They will come here on Thursday to do the same thing. In fact, this proposal that has been made by hon. Kaino is, probably, the most important proposal that could help a lot of our rural folks to make a step forward in terms of food security in their constituencies. Here I am particularly speaking on behalf of farmers in Garsen Constituency who are dependent on subsistence agriculture. We need to take this opportunity to make the point that Parliament in the in-coming new dispensation must be given proper power, so that when we pass proposals like this, the Executive will have no option, but to implement it. I want to make this first point that this goes directly into the question of budgeting. When we pass a proposal, we say we want Kshs2 billion to be particularly invested in farmers’ small holder projects across the country, then the Executive will be told that this money has been ring-fenced for this purpose. The Minister for Agriculture will have no opportunity to mess around with a project that has been passed by this House because this is the will of the people of Kenya. Parliament, in the new"
}