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    "id": 1097082,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1097082/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "does not matter whether or not you are isolated. It does not matter what happens. Human beings will need to eat. So, the future is heavily dependent on people who are able to provide food for themselves and for export. It is because food will always be required. Technology will always be required. People will need to live in houses. There are some things even our youth should now be looking at. I see most of them finishing university and all they are doing is looking for white collar jobs, instead of looking at how to get into efficient food production, processing and making a business out of it. People will always eat. In most of the other countries, that is what is sustaining those economies - food production. For us at this point, if we can create the systems that are required to support irrigation, we would have gone one step in ensuring that this country can produce food for itself, for the neighbourhood and for the commercial markets, from arid and semi-arid areas that the good Lord bestowed on this country. We have beautiful weather and constant temperatures between day and night. It is good for food production. We do not have severe winters. We do not have severe summers. All we need is to harness the fertility of our soils and the water that we have and we have food produced. So, this Bill is basically trying to help by putting all that and streamlining the Irrigation Act of 2019 to bring it up to speed to respond to the current challenges so that Kenya can become a food-secure country. With those remarks, I beg to move and ask Hon. Chachu Ganya, the Vice Chairperson of the Committee that has this huge mandate on water, environment and natural resources, to second."
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