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    "id": 391979,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/391979/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. King’ola",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Makau King'ola",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. From the outset, I want to say that it pains me as I contribute to this Motion. We are just at the onset of the short rains and very soon we will start seeing people from Nyando, Baringo and down the Tana Delta crying. Sometimes back we watched a lady from Nyando crying that: “Serikali kuja saidia.” Time has come when this Government should now rise and say that flooding is a thing of the past. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Kenya is blessed with rivers, enough rainfall and the climate is good for rain water collection. Technology is everything. If you go to Egypt which is a desert, you will find that it relies on River Nile. The construction of the Aswan High Dam was done sometimes in the 1960s. That is a dam which contributes to the food basket of that nation. It is ironical to see Egypt exporting rice to Kenya. They even export onions, tomatoes and oranges to this country and yet the area that they are irrigating is equal in size to one province in this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have seen what technology can do. 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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