{"id":1257785,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1257785/?format=json","text_counter":236,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Sifuna","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13599,"legal_name":"Sifuna Edwin Watenya","slug":"sifuna-edwin-watenya"},"content":"Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, allow me to begin. These students must know that once upon a time, their Senator was free labour for my father on his farm after I finished my Form Four. I got an opportunity--- It might not look like it right now, but I grew many of these crops that people are talking about. Sometimes, when my colleagues, Senators, talk to me, they imagine that I do not know what ndengu is because I am the Senator of Nairobi City County. When I finished Form Four, I was free labour for my father, Mr. Watenya. I grew maize, sugarcane, cassava, groundnuts and this ndengu. I want to confess here that before this Bill came to the Floor of the House, I did not know that ndengu i s called mung bean. So, I want to thank the Senator of Kitui County for enlightening me that this is what we were talking about. I was expecting some very fancy crop, only to be told that it is"}