{"id":1255146,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1255146/?format=json","text_counter":373,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Methu","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13581,"legal_name":"Methu John Muhia","slug":"methu-john-muhia"},"content":"Statistics have not been fair. My colleagues have said that agriculture is a devolved function. However, statistics are not very forgiving to the change of times since we got the devolved system of Government. It is a sad state of affairs that in 2006, before devolution, Kenya produced 33.6 million bags of maize. Many years later, in 2022 - 16 years later - Kenya produced 34.3 million bags of maize over the same time. It begs the question; how and why should crop production reduce after 16 years? What are we doing wrong? I would like to cite the second example. I sit in the County Public Accounts Committee. One of the audit issues we are dealing with is a case explained by a county government. They had a very good idea of changing the breed of cattle in that particular county and they gave out 90 new breeds of cows."}