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    "id": 1095514,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I will only comment on the first petition. We are sure that this country can no longer rely on rain to produce enough food. One of the Big Four Agenda of the President is food security. When we were student leaders in the University of Nairobi, we came up with a proposal and advised the then Government of the late President Moi, to irrigate the whole country using the water in Mt. Kenya, Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Elgon by piping it along all Government roads which stand at around 300,000 km. Piping will only require less than Kshs50 billion. With labour, it will go to about Kshs 80 billion. Instead of water flowing to Indian Ocean, it will be flowing to our farms and we will have enough food. I am currently collecting signatures on the same so that we can petition the Budget and Appropriations Committee to set aside about Kshs89 billion for us to irrigate this country. So the petition is good. If it does not apply in this regime, and since you are one of the front runners in the coming General Election of 2022… Actually, you are only the two of you: it is either you or William Ruto who will become the 5th President of Kenya. In the event that you become the President, I advise you to listen to our proposal of irrigating the whole country using the water in Mt. Kenya, Mt. Kilimanjaro and Aberdare Ranges. The water flows using gravity. It will flow to our farms because we are talking of more than 2,000 meters above sea level, yet 80 per cent of our low lands stand at 100metres above sea level. The land is very fertile. So, I support the petition."
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