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    "id": 1259737,
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    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. From the outset, I support the Supplementary Appropriation (No.2) Bill. From my own observations, I have seen that in this country we lack discipline and this is getting out of hand. Our discipline is not where we expect it to be. Resources are also misplaced and misused. This House has a duty, and that is why we have cabinet secretaries coming here to answer questions. As representatives of the people, we want them to be answerable because distribution of resources is misplaced. I want to agree with what Hon. Mbadi said about overemployment of people in some organisations. We have to generate our own income and some years back I think Koreans came to this country to borrow money during the time of the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. Today, I have heard our debt is almost at 62 per cent. Why? This is because people are not doing what they are supposed to. Our country has enough resources. Although there is climate change, we should produce our own food. You can imagine, due to drought, we imported food from Egypt. We have eight rivers in the Lake Basin region for irrigation while Egypt has only one yet we import rice from there. I have worked in the Lake Basin region and I can tell you we have enough resources. That area alone should feed this country and we get surplus to export. Hon. Temporary Speaker, can you imagine us importing rice from Egypt, a country that has only one river, yet we have the Lake Basin here! The Lake Basin has eight rivers which I can name as you all know. With that, we could be able to do irrigation in that area but we are not able to do that because people have taken it lightly. We just have to work as Kenyans. We have enough resources here and very good climatic change. Therefore, as a matter of discipline, we should feed ourselves, export and do other things for our country. Last, but not least, imagine us having a debt of 6.5 per cent just because of corruption. We should do something about this so that we direct the resources to the right place. Misdirecting the resources is the reason we are having problems and debts of up to 62 per cent. That is unbelievable but that is what you have been told. I support this Appropriation Bill. Further, I hope that Kenyans, for only this one, will be disciplined and direct our country so that we too export. For example, if you look at tourism, it is going down compared to what we had in the past. We do not get enough tourists in this country now. Even when they come, they are taken to places that they are not supposed to be taken to and as a result they do not come back. I support, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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