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    "id": 386473,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/386473/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 173,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
    "speaker_title": "The Senator for Kirinyaga County",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 232,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
        "slug": "daniel-karaba"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is true. If tomorrow we are treated to another lecture by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), you will note that Mpeketoni itself as a region has a higher GDP than the whole of Lamu District. That is true and there is nothing to hide. So, we should specialize in maximizing production of the natural resources that we have in our areas. I would expect those people who are good in fishing to continue fishing, so that we get more fish. That is all I am trying to say. Those people who are good in agriculture should be allowed to farm and provide food to those people who need the food so that we can talk about food surplus. That is what should happen. If you go the United States of America or Israel, that is what is happening. It is not that all the states of America are good to live in; there are some states which are very bad. They have been marginalized the way you are talking here, but in America, some states are over- productive. That is what they tend to share in the form of subsidy levels and payment to those people who cannot afford to grow cotton during the time of crop failure. That is happening even today. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, so, whatever is happening in those great countries like America, it is also possible to also do it in Kenya. Those people who have good agricultural lands like those who live in the five water towers in the Mau, Elgon, Mt. Kenya and Cherangany, should continue harnessing that water which is coming from there and make use of it. The surplus water can be harnessed in dams. We should construct dams along those rivers. This is possible because it has happened elsewhere. That is the only way we can grow more crops even during drought because, every three months after the rainy season, people start crying that there is shortage of food whereas today they crying about floods. That is something that can be stopped. In Kirinyaga, we have three major crops; tea, coffee and rice. We have the best rice in Africa and, possibly, in the world. I hope that during this period, we are going to form our own cartels---"
}