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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Committee has made high level study visits to China and India where we met Ministers for Agriculture and their staff. We also visited research institutions. We learnt valuable lessons on modernization of agriculture and support for farmers. That is why we are calling on the Government to take agriculture more seriously and go back to the 1960s when we had massive subsidies to the agricultural sector in this country and reject the misguided policies introduced by the World Bank and other Bretton Woods Institutions, which brought this country to shame from 1980s onwards. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not have much time. As the Senator for Meru County, my primary responsibility is to represent Meru County on the Floor of this Senate. I won the ticket for Senate for Meru County on the motto of making Meru great. That is why you call me “the King of Meru.” I must say that I am very disappointed because we are unable to do the things that I thought we would do in the counties. This is largely because of insufficient allocation of resources. We have been allocated barely Kshs5 billion, out of which, Kshs3.1 billion goes to pay salaries. We have only Kshs1.9 billion left for development. I thought that we would have---"
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