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    "id": 1097100,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1097100/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Christine Ombaka",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill which I highly support. This country is blessed with water resources including Lake Victoria, which is one of the fresh water lakes in the world and it is not being utilised well when it comes to irrigation. This country suffers a lot from hunger. Children, women and people in dry areas suffer from hunger during drought and sometimes the whole world gets concerned and sends food and money to support the people who are suffering in this country. Therefore, irrigation is a solution to some of the problems that we have especially where there is no food. We have never utilised irrigation very well. I know that we have water resources all over as has already been mentioned. There is water in the mountains in central Kenya. We have hilly areas where we can get water. We have many trees also growing in the Rift Valley. So, if you are looking for water in this country, you can get it. It is only that we have never utilised it very well. So, irrigation is key to the issues of hunger, poverty and nutrition. I support this highly because we have manpower and people who can help us. Israel is a desert but has been transformed into a very fertile country. It produces food and is self-sufficient. I think we can get to that level when we learn from them on how they do it so well. This country can learn from other countries that are currently using irrigation, are self- reliant and can feed their own citizens. Time has come for us to change tact on how to have food and look after our citizens so that we avoid this annual hunger that we have and the whole world sympathises and pities us. It is like we cannot make it. Time has come to move above that. I have nothing much to say over this for now, but I believe that this is the right direction. It is a very good Bill that we should move fast with and ensure it is implemented. The authorities behind this implementation should also be empowered to do so effectively. Otherwise, I support the Bill. Thank you."
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