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    "id": 1142636,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1142636/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for this opportunity. This is a straightforward amendment because I have seen it is more of editing that needs to be done. I will be very brief. As you are aware, we are being told this year - or was it the end of last year - that two to three million Kenyans are facing starvation because of non-strategic placement of structures. For heaven’s sake, we are in the 21st Century. No Kenyan should go without food. It should be a basic human right. I was saddened when I watched the news today in the afternoon that Mandera County is facing a serious shortage of water and there is a serious drought happening in northern Kenya. The Ministry of Devolution, Arid and Semi-Arid Lands has been moved to that of the Public Service and Gender. No Kenyan should die of starvation because in the North Rift, we harvest in surplus, especially in December. We were expecting that a 90-kilogram bag of maize should be Kshs3000- Kshs3500, so that we can get value. As we talk today, a bag of Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertilizer, not the DAP that people have known--- I am told that there is a political party known as DAP. The fertilizer costs Kshs5,000 and is approaching Kshs6,000. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you and I come from a region where we rely heavily on agriculture. Even the Senate Majority Leader also depends on fertilizer. Let us reduce the pricing of fertilizer - not the political party - to at least Kshs1,800. The cost of input will go low and we will produce more. I support this Bill because I have gone through it and I think it is a straightforward matter, as the Majority Leader has put it. Even in Nandi County, we need irrigation especially when in Chemelil-Chemase ward and Tinderet Constituency. These are areas that need irrigation. Other areas that need irrigation within Nandi County are Chemase and Kamasai near Kakamega County, so that we can plant throughout the seasons. The challenge has been that we should not be disadvantaged simply because we have heavy rainfall. We should be made part of the entire North Rift, so that we continue producing food throughout the year. This will ensure that Kenyans in the northern part or any other part of Kenya do not suffer because of lack of food. I want to comment on the amendment of Section 9: Administration of National Water Resources. It is very important because we are gender sensitive. At least, we are putting two genders. I have looked at the main Principle Act and it was not there. I commend this. Secondly, I commend the inclusion of County Governments in part of the four nominees that are being submitted by the Council of Governors (CoG). That is significant because the Principal Act under Section 9 had not factored that. Although I do not know why the national Government would want to know why it would want its stamp print on every department, but it is okay. I agree with the drawing. At"
}