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    "id": 103277,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/103277/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 114,
        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. This Motion should have been implemented yesterday. I do not want to belabour the point that this House has been reduced to a talk shop. Every time this House comes with a very important agenda for this country, but the Executive has always been taking this House for a ride. It is not only this Motion but every other Motion. If you see the House today and the attendance of the Executive, we had only one Minister who was listening to this Motion. This Motion is not on the order paper by chance. It is the House Business Committee which approved it. I am sure the Executive arm of this Government must be aware it is appearing as a Motion on this Paper. We needed to have the technical personnel from the Ministries of Agriculture and Finance to listen to the ideas that are generated by this Motion by the MPs. But as my fellow contributors have said, it has only been reduced to a talk shop where we come and persuade the Government to do things that most Kenyans have been yearning for and things that this Government should not have been persuaded to do. These are things that this Government should have generated themselves. But even when very good ideas come from the Back Bench or from MPs who are yearning to advance this nation into realisation of its dreams of self-sufficiency, then the Executive arm will just ignore not to post even a single personnel from the technical department to come and listen to what good ideas that we are asking them to implement. For this country to be self-reliant and the fact that we are not an industrialised nation where we can say we will do away with the agricultural sector, then we have to think seriously. I think having small-scale irrigation schemes is key to food sufficiency in this country. That is why this Motion should have the full attention of the Executive arm of this nation and should be seen to be implemented to the letter. The Economic Stimulus Programme that was supposed to be implemented in 2009/2010, was a welcome idea, although we know in many constituencies things have not begun. This was to stimulate the economy at the grassroots. That is why we thought of taking this project down to the constituencies. It is not that we lack potential for small- holder irrigation in this country. The amount of water that goes to waste, and as Members"
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