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    "id": 103298,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/103298/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "We need to have a metamorphosis in the Ministries of Agriculture and Finance. We should look at it differently; the way we structure ourselves and the way we relate to the production process so that the type of land which is available now in North Eastern--- Habaswein Swamp can easily accommodate about one million acres. Those people are willing to talk to their brothers, investors and people who can do it. The amount of water that is being squandered on Bura Irrigation is voluminous. Looking at the furrow itself in Bura, it has more than all the water that is used for the development of the State of Israel. I have been there courtesy of the Ministry of Agriculture. I am talking from a point of knowledge. This country can produce in excess--- I have just come from China and the ruling party there invited us. They took us to their top organ and we met the Committee on Agriculture. They patiently listened to us. This is what they told us in return. Currently, Kenya has more poor people than China although our population is 40 million and poverty based on the revised index of US$200 per month per poor person. The difference between us and them is the way we look at the agricultural sector; the question of appropriate subsidy and an environment completely devoid of those cartels, particularly, maize, sugar, pyrethrum and all those kinds of cartels that we have described in the past. Those are the kinds of things that will make it impossible for this Government to buy maize from Bura. Those are the cartels that will make it impossible for this Ministry to operate. That is because if the Minister for Agriculture is efficient, then those people who are busy importing cereals and enjoying billions will not have a chance. They will not be able to support such a budgetary move."
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