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    "id": 563733,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/563733/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "June 30th, 2015 SENATE DEBATES 59 Sen. Ong’era",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. First of all, I would like to congratulate Sen. Elachi for bringing a Bill on Food Security. As you are aware, this Bill provides for effect to Article 53, Article 21 and Article 43. Apart from providing for acceptable food, it also provides for adequate food and a nutritious diet. As the Seconder of this Bill stated, we have never had a Bill in this country that talks about adequate and nutritious food. Therefore, this is a Bill that we want to support. However, I would not want to support it, if it will bring devolution down. Therefore, at the right time, we will be proposing the necessary amendments so that the principle of devolving agriculture to the counties and the issue of food security remains with the counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to look at the composition of the board that has been proposed. While it is a good idea to have a board, we should not try to centralize and bring back agriculture to the national government through the backdoor by centralizing certain provisions and have them at the national level. I would want to see a situation where more of the county officials are involved in the composition of the board so that we can have involvement of the counties."
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