Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1079894,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1079894/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 43,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipkelion East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Limo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1915,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
        "slug": "joseph-kirui-limo"
    },
    "content": " Thank you Hon. Speaker for giving me this chance to also contribute to this important Petition. This is a very important Petition because any country which does not control quality is a country which does not have a future. The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and, indeed, the whole country has lost direction in terms of ensuring that all agricultural institutions are up to task. One of the biggest issues we currently have is funding. I want to beseech this House, through the Committee on Agriculture and Livestock together with the Committee on Budgets and Appropriations that, when it comes to financing, we must ensure that all institutions which deal with agriculture are properly funded. I am saying this because you will find Kenya Seed Company is unable to do adequate research and produce the right seeds and the right quantity and this has created some room for unscrupulous traders to produce fake seeds. That is because Kenya Seed Company is unable to supply the right quality at the right time. Hon. Speaker, it is not only maize seeds which are being affected. It also affects coffee - because coffee research is not funded. It also affects tea because Tea Research Foundation which was there before is almost dead. It is actually located in my constituency and it is not funded. You find they cannot do any research. Therefore, I beseech this House to ensure that it rises to its feet and ensures that it performs its constitutional mandate of controlling the funding and fund the right institutions to the right levels so that this country is safe. Otherwise South Rift and North Rift - which are the food baskets of this country, including my own constituency which produces a lot of maize - are at risk. We are planting maize whose quality we are unsure of. I support that Petition."
}