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    "id": 1096435,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1096435/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gatanga, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Nduati",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Nduati Ngugi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for also giving me a chance to make my remarks. From the outset, I want to say I support the Irrigation (Amendment) Bill. I have read it and seen it is really going to assist our people. I have liked what they have come up with – defining what an irrigation scheme is. The term “national irrigation scheme” has been well defined. We have transboundary, trans-county or intercountry irrigation schemes which was not captured in the past. This has been well done. Again, the strategic irrigation schemes have been well articulated here. A strategic irrigation scheme means a national or county scheme which serves a specific productive purpose. However, there are some proposals which have been put here which I will have to bring some amendments. Look at Clause 9 (2) where the people who are going to nominate board members have been proposed. One of them is a registered private sector membership organisation. I do not know of such an organisation. Again, it has been proposed that two people be appointed by the Cabinet Secretary out of four people nominated by the National Irrigation Farmers’ Association. I do not think we have such an organisation in Kenya unless the Committee will guide us on this."
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