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    "id": 132327,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/132327/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kosgei",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13,
        "legal_name": "Lucas Kipkosgei Chepkitony",
        "slug": "lucas-chepkitony"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir for giving me the opportunity to support Vote 10 of the Ministry of Agriculture. These days when we talk about agriculture, we are thinking of food security because of the number of people we see starving around the country. I want to commend the Minister and his colleagues because they have really gone out of their way to demonstrate that they are sensitive and they are listening. Obviously, behind this Minister, there must be very efficient civil servants working behind the scenes that nobody sees or even knows. Let me use this opportunity to congratulate them for a job they are doing really well. Kenya is an agricultural country. By that, we do not only mean that we ought to be food secure, but we are also talking of the fact that the backbone of this economy remains agriculture. While a colleague will talk about what we will do with potatoes and why coffee is not being subsidized and so on, if we put all these in the context of our overall economic performance, we should immediately recognize what the Ministry must know. For example, we very rarely talk about the cash crops which are not food and"
}