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    "id": 1142675,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1142675/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "I have mentioned saving on foreign exchange. We can save much more money that we use to import, for example, rice, if we utilize our rice irrigation schemes. We will even awaken our labour market. Our young people will stop going abroad to look for jobs because they will be the same ones who will work in our irrigation schemes. Most of Israel is just arid land. Kenya has both arid and semi-arid areas. If we practice what Israel does, which is what this amendment supports, we will be in a better position. Our educated youth who are jobless will be employed in their own country and assist Kenya to improve its economic growth. When an irrigation scheme is set up, infrastructural development is inevitable. If we pass this Bill, we can even develop more because we cannot invest without infrastructure. Infrastructure and development go hand in hand. We will then improve parts our county that are undeveloped and have not seen infrastructure since Independence. I support the amendments because food production will improve. We will be able to feed Kenyans, save on foreign exchange and improve infrastructural development. We will also improve the livelihoods of Kenyans who depend on those irrigation schemes for basic needs. In the end, towns around the irrigation schemes will be better. For example, Bura and Mwea grew from irrigation. In those towns, people are self-employment. That is what we need to improve the livelihoods of Kenyans. Those are some of the issues that we want to sort out in Kenya, so that we can all benefit. Kenyans are looking forward to improving their livelihoods. I support the amendments."
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