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    "id": 1379796,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1379796/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Koyi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": "The only problem is that cotton seeds are not available. They were there last year but not this year. We need to ask the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development to make the seeds available. We know that they are imported. It is easy to grow cotton. It is planted on the second season in Western Kenya. By then, we will have harvested all the food crops that we need. It is used to make bar soaps and animal feeds. Cotton seeds and sunflower seeds are useful to farmers from that region. I am happy with the way Kenya Kwanza Government is struggling on every sector to make sure that our young people are employed in different fields. This should continue so that we realise the potential of cotton seed. The country imports mitumba but if we have our own cotton, Hon. Temporary Speaker, we are going to reduce that. I used to be in the Military and the Kenyan Military used to buy uniforms from Rivatex East Africa Limited. I am happy that Rivatex East Africa Limited is ready to buy the cotton in many millions of tonnes so that they make clothes and good cotton suits. I rise to support and thank Hon. Mary Emaase for bringing this for the people of this country to realise that Kenya Kwanza Government is really working. I also thank the President of this country for his initiative. The Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga is being prepared properly by His Excellency the President to join..."
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