{"id":362864,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/362864/?format=json","text_counter":82,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Sakaja","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13131,"legal_name":"Johnson Arthur Sakaja","slug":"johnson-arthur-sakaja"},"content":"Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am glad the point has reached home. Either way, as a country, we have buried our talent. Kenya has the potential of being a net exporter of food. We can be Africa’s bread basket. Indeed, even my home country of Trans Nzoia alone can feed this entire country but for a long time we have been inefficient in terms of agriculture and production and we have not been serious. I am reminded of two or three years ago when we had some famine in this country and when there was the Kenya for Kenyans Programme, a country like Egypt donated food to this country. Now, Egypt has only 3 per cent of arable land. Donating food to a country like Kenya with more than 30 per cent arable land, indeed I think that was embarrassing to say the least."}