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    "id": 1417817,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1417817/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ganze, PAA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kenneth Tungule",
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    "content": "Things have changed nowadays. The era or the days when we used to look at the stars or the moon’s position to forecast the weather are long gone. The current trend is people using satellite technology. We, as a country, need to adopt this technology as fast as possible. I have listened to my colleagues contributing to this Motion. All of them talk about how this technology will assist farmers in planting in a timely manner and planning how to till their land. In addition, this technology will help farmers and the Government in planning service delivery. When planning to do roads, we know that we also need to know the exact weather conditions at that time. It would be foolhardy for a government to plan road rehabilitation only for them to be washed away the next day because they did not have a good understanding of the weather patterns of that area. Much as we are saying that this technology can assist our farmers, it can also go a long way in helping the Government to plan to deliver services to wananchi . Again, technology will help the Government to be prepared for disasters. A case in point is what happened during the drought last year. It caught the Government flat-footed. The Government had not planned for it. That is why we had to come to Parliament and use Article 223 of the Constitution to provide emergency relief supplies to areas affected by the drought. We would have forecast such scenarios long ago if the Government had modern technology to predict the weather. The Government would have prepared well to avert such situations. This is a very timely Motion. We need to support it as Parliament. After passing the Motion, the onus is on the Government to ensure it is implemented so that Kenyans can benefit from it. With those few remarks, I support."
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