{"id":1520359,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1520359/?format=json","text_counter":350,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mbeere North, DP","speaker_title":"Hon. Ruku GK","speaker":null,"content":"Most Members in this House represent extremely marginalised areas. You will find a 771-square-kilometres semi-arid constituency with only 38 kilometres of road from 1963 to date. The constituency has less than 20 per cent household water connection. Household power connectivity in such a constituency, where even about four of the dams that generate power in this country are, is less than 25 per cent. The agro-ecological zone of the same constituency does not support agricultural activities in terms of maize and beans growing. Our households consume cereals on a day-to-day basis. Around five to seven planting seasons have failed consecutively."}