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    "id": 206394,
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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Mango",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Mango",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I take the opportunity to congratulate Prof. Ojiambo for bringing it up. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, ASALs occupy two-thirds of this country. That means that they occupy a large portion of this nation. But there has been concentration on the remaining one-third, which is considered to be highly potential, while ignoring the two-thirds, which is the largest part of our country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what is needed is to look at the productivity of those areas. ASALs are the future development focus of this country. Therefore, this Motion has come at the right time. The Government should start planning for ASALs. First of all, the Government must map out all ASALs and gazette arid and semi-arid districts. As it is, that process has been haphazard. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what ASALs require is water. In this country, we need a water pipeline from the flooded areas in Budalangi up to the ASALs. Then, we can plant trees and have forests. We have seen that happening in other countries. We can have green houses like we have seen in the Negeb Desert in Israel. We can change this country from becoming a desert into a well-forested country. I have seen that around Jerusalem. A few years ago, when I first went there, there were no trees. But when I went there ten years later, there was a forest. We are capable of doing that. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, ASALs' main occupation is livestock rearing. In the 1980s, there was an attempt in this country to have a livestock production policy. That was during the Moi Government. That just seems to have fizzled out! All we need in the ASALs is to have water, so that we can have fodder for the livestock. We should supply water to people living in arid and semi-arid areas. That way, they will live normal lives like other Kenyans."
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