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    "id": 553633,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/553633/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1915,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "I want to encourage the counties to borrow leaf from the national Government in terms of ensuring that more money is voted to Development Expenditure than Recurrent Expenditure. On the priority areas, this country should focus more on food security. The first step is to ensure that the people in this country are well fed. Once they are well fed and the food prices are stable, then you can focus on other infrastructure development. One of the biggest threats to food security in this country currently is the lethal maize necrosis which has destroyed most of the plantations in the South Rift. There is a risk that North Rift is not safe either. Therefore, on this Budget, we should see more effort being put on control of crop disease and compensation of farmers who have lost their maize. It is a big worry that for the last three years, most farmers in Bomet, Narok and Kericho have lost maize, but little has been done. We have not seen the Government coming in to give farmers say, free seeds and fertiliser to ensure that these farmers are back on track especially in the areas where the effects of this crop disease are subsiding."
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