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    "id": 1352727,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1352727/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisii County, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dorice Donya",
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    "content": "Only recently, we planted trees. I do not know why this exercise came at such a particular time. With the kind of rains that we have, all the trees that were planted must have been washed away. There is nothing you can do when you have a lot of water submerging trees that have just been planted. We have misplaced our priorities. We seem to be prioritising things that are not supposed to be given priority. Right now, public universities are crying that they do not have funds. The same applies to schools, and yet education is key. The best gift you can give to your child is education. The Government has promised to give education priority but it is not funding public universities. Come to Junior Secondary School (JSS), the pain that the teachers go through is too much. One teacher teaches 12 subjects. How do you teach sign language if you are not trained in that area? What subject will you have to offer as an alternative? Why have I brought up this issue? Misplaced priorities. If we get our priorities right, Kisii County alone can serve as the food basket of this country. It can feed the whole of this country. You go there. The land is very green. You will just love it as you overfly that area. You will look down and say, ‘These people are blessed.’ It rains well. The grass and the trees are ever green. What is shocking is that if it rains at 11.00 a.m, by 6.00 p.m, the women are carrying jerrycans to fetch water in the river. As a country, we cannot understand that instead of taking loans to do other things, we can build dams in Kisii because we have a lot of water. Why are there good dairy farmers in Central Kenya? It is because they have 60 per cent water connectivity. There are other good places in Nyanza like Kisii, Luoland and Western Kenya which are evergreen and good farming projects can be undertaken. We can also grow enough food in Kitale."
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