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    "id": 1096467,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kapenguria, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Moroto",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Chumel Moroto",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to add my voice to this debate and appreciate the amendment Bill. During the next sitting when we will be discussing the amendments, the Bill can be improved further. We realise that God has given us a very beautiful land, which is so fruitful with water. However, to my surprise, we are getting food from countries which are not as blessed as ours. Those of us who border Uganda, most of the foodstuffs we take to our households are from Uganda. It was dry, but because they loved their country, they volunteered to work and improve on water use, just the way the Israelites did. So, we now get food commodities from Uganda. It is just because of irrigation. The use of small dams in that country has really improved agriculture production. As you move towards Karamojong area, the land is drier than Lodwar or Turkana, where we have so many rivers with water flowing without anybody using it. This is wastage. In fact, it is high time I supported my colleagues who said that we have a problem. The people sitting in the National Irrigation Authority, who are supposed to plan and implement irrigation projects, 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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