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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. It is about the President. However, I was thinking of Hon. Gachagua, the Deputy President that is why I had a slip of the tongue. I invite this Senate and the National Assembly to help President William Ruto’s Government, by doing more. We need to be courageous as legislators and speak to the land tenure policy in this country. For as long as we continue sub-divide ancestral land into tiny and tinier pieces so that every brother has got his own piece, we will not achieve food security. It is important to have a clear policy on land tenure so that we can encourage urbanization and possibly achieve land consolidation so that we can have large scale production of food. This being the case, this is now the modern era, where science is guiding the whole world. Therefore, I appeal to colleagues that it is time for us to also encourage the farm introduction of genetically modified foodstuffs so that we can have food security in this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President raised the important issue of the shylocks and the need for us to strengthen our Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs). He chose to refer to the prohibitive lending fees that borrowers are exposed to and special reference in this case, using my own words, Safaricom Limited. Hon. Members of this Senate, we must fight hard. What is going on, on that monopoly called Safaricom is not acceptable. Safaricom declares obnoxious profits at the end of each financial year. That my daughter can call her boyfriend and tell her, “ Mirembe mno” then she will pay for greeting her boyfriend. It does not make sense. We need to make the cost of calling cheaper. We are now doing most of the learning in this country virtually."
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