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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": "I thank Hon. Atandi, the new Chairperson for the Budget and Appropriations Committee, for bringing this Motion to the House. You have started on a very good note. You are bringing in very good perspectives to the Government. Continue on the same trajectory. What happened recently with the new Government in the United States of America (USA) is what can be described as a double-edged sword. It is a double-edged sword when the administration decided that they will be very centric, meaning they are going to focus on developing themselves. This means very little aid is going to come to countries such as Kenya. It is not only the USA, even the United Kingdom (UK) is also reducing development aid. It is a wake-up call for many African countries. We have very rich countries. We have many resources and if we utilise them well, we can go far. One of the things we have to make sure we do first is to be food secure. That is why it is important for us to have our own locally produced manufacturer of fertilisers. Recently, Parliament gave us a training on Public Private Partnerships (PPP). I wish Parliament could do that for every Member of Parliament and cascade what PPPs are to the whole public so that the public can buy in. Not everything in PPPs is bad. We have not alerted people what it is that made it opaque but through PPPs, we can bring fertiliser plants in almost every constituency and make people food secure. The other issue is that we must leverage on our youth. We can no longer rely on formal employment. We must have many of our young people who can invest in agriculture. We must adapt that and have a rethinking in our youth so that many more can get into areas like agriculture. I like practising what I say. My nephew, whom I have supported very strongly, has just graduated with a degree in agriculture and is becoming a farmer. This is the way to go. As a Government, we need to incubate them, help them, support them, and give finances to support, but we can only do that if we stop pilferage and corruption. I know that my good friend and colleague would not want us to talk about it, but even as we are in the broad-based Government, what is wrong is wrong, and we know what is The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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