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    "id": 1097089,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1097089/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support the Bill. I thank the Leader of Majority Party and the members of that Committee because this is a very important Bill that takes into account our President's Big Four Agenda. Part of the Big Four Agenda is what we have just discussed in the National Hospital Insurance Fund (Amendment) Bill on universal healthcare. We are now in the second pillar of the Big Four Agenda, namely, food security that relies on our ability to irrigate our land. About 80 per cent of our land mass is either arid or semi-arid. Those people need food. Where does the food come from? It is from the other 20 per cent land mass of Kenya. It is a huge burden for the 20 per cent to carry the 80 per cent. Our agriculture has been solely dependent on rains. With all the climatic changes, it is becoming difficult to support even the 20 per cent, if it can produce enough food. With the increase in our population and our land shrinking to the point of a person owning a quarter of an acre where you build a house, a pit latrine and probably a small"
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