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    "id": 1096424,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1096424/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Amendment Bill. This country is blessed with many rivers and a lot of water flows into the ocean. In fact, as Hon. Mulyungi has stated, we should have domestic irrigation. This is being practised in Yatta by Bishop Masika who has irrigated a whole location through cooperatives, organised community groups and the church. They have helped each other save and store rain water. In our country, even in the driest areas when it rains, it floods. Eventually all the water is swept away and not properly managed. In the previous Parliament, I was a Member of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock and I am very familiar with this topic. One of the things we did as Parliament and the Kibaki Government was to ensure irrigation systems were set in this country. We visited Israel and there the Government through its companies made an attempt to assist Kenya irrigate so as to reach their level. Israel has one single river called Jordan which irrigates the whole country and as a desert, they produce and sell foodstuffs to many parts of the world."
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