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    "id": 1095518,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to comment on the first Petition which relates to the issue of food security. I agree with the Petitioner. I just urge the Committee that even as they consider this matter, they should note that rain-fed agriculture will not take us far. Actually, what we need is irrigated agriculture. In our Ukambani region, we have two very big rivers, namely, Tana River and Athi River, which flow all the way to the Indian Ocean. At one point, I had a chance to work in Sudan; not South Sudan but the upper one. I realised that the Government of Sudan, at that time, had actually constructed a canal of about 1,000 kilometres branching from the River Nile where they grow their sugar and many other things. As a country, we just need to get our act together. Yesterday and the day before yesterday, there were two Petitions which were proposing the degazettement of potential land for irrigation. That is the kind of balance that we want as a country. The people who planned this country in terms of agricultural land and livestock land did The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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