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    "id": 468390,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "July 9, 2013 SENATE DEBATES 35 Sen. Mositet",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion by my good friend Sen. Haji. All has been said and I will just summarize by saying that the major problem facing this nation is unemployment and feeding the people of this nation. At Independence, this country’s population was less than10 million. But as I speak now, we are approaching 40 million. Even though the population is high, you will find that there is great immigration of people from the rural areas to urban centres. These people come to look for work. Most of them are employed on casual basis and they need to eat. I do agree with the Jubilee manifesto and what our people stand for. By the end of five years, they will have managed to irrigate about one million hectares. Where do we get these million hectares? I think Sen. Haji has come up with a good Motion because a big per cent of this land can be taken from the pastoralist areas. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if I look at the pastoralist areas and not necessarily northern Kenya, but also Narok, Kajiado and part of Laikipia, a few years ago, people used to lease land for farming. But currently, about 70 per cent are the owners. If you consider areas that produce maize for example, you will count Kajiado County, especially Loitoktok and part of Narok. These areas are now producing a lot of maize. As an engineer I know we have the best irrigation engineers in this country. So, when it comes to the issue of planning, I do not think we have a problem of where to plan or where to site the dams or even how to do the best irrigation. Just like the earlier speakers said, we will continue having the same pastoral lifestyle, but it will have improved such that the wastage from the farms can be stored and later used during the drier season. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I support this Motion. Will I be in order to ask that the Mover be called upon to reply?"
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