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    "content": "near Mount Elgon. We should have a series of dams along the river. The counties that exist where this river passes through can, therefore, begin to use the water. However, we always wait for problems so as to deal with issues. We now have a Ministry called the Ministry of State for Special Programmes which is supposed to deal with special problems that come every year. If we utilized this money that we always use impulsively, we would solve many problems. We were told that the Tana River County was very flooded this year. Animals died and some people had to climb on trees. This water could just have been trapped along the Tana River before it goes down. This means that we should put our priorities right. We talk about Vision 2030. Five years have now elapsed since this was started. There was a brilliant statement referred to as the “Medium Term Plan” which was to be accomplished by the year 2007/2012. By this time, a major irrigation scheme should have been done. This has not been realized and yet over five years are gone. We produce documents that other countries come to copy. I am told that we have really fed the East African Community (EAC) and the latest beneficiary is Southern Sudan. They have been coming for our documents and implementing them. They may not talk about it, but the truth is that we are the generators of the things they are implementing. Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o taught everybody at the university. However, out of that, what next? I want to support this Motion and say that counties that have learnt can start working with the national Government. In West Pokot, we will assess how much land is available. The national Government needs to come and sit with us so that we begin the process. The young people that Sen. Yusuf Haji was talking about who can go into cooperatives should come on board when the initial infrastructure has been done by the Government, so that they do not toil. They should come on board and be assigned portions. If they fail in the first two years, another group should be assigned the land. This way, we can do it. Several countries, for instance, Singapore do not have anywhere to plant vegetables. Everything is imported. If we had Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with some of the countries suffering from food deficiency and we grow organic food the way they want it, we would supply them and this country would not remain the same. Our counties are already saturated. For instance, Nyeri County does not have enough land to carry out farming. These counties can link up with others which have enough land. Of course, there should be a procedure of how they come in. This Motion is coming at a time when all of us can reason together as a nation. Let us get the issues of business right. Tomorrow, I will be talking about the livestock industry which is also in problem. I support."
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