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    "id": 62137,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
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        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": "Our founding fathers had identified three main enemies of our nation that they sought to conquer and amongst the three was that of poverty and hunger. There was that of ignorance and disease but if you look at what has happened through the years, you will find that it is a sad story that in spite of setting out to conquer hunger and poverty as a nation of 47 years, we are still food insecure. Part of the reason of our failure to achieve national food security or remove our nation from the list of food insecure nations of the world is the high cost of production and particularly the problems that farmers are facing in accessing fertilizer on time and at affordable prices. We know that long after Independence and our founding fathers had set out to conquer hunger, several nations met in September, 2000. Those were 189 United Nations member states that acknowledged the urgent need to free men, women and children of the world from the dehumanizing condition of extreme poverty and hunger. They identified certain goals that they called “The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)”. The first goal, amongst the eight goals set by all the member states was the goal to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. I thank the hon. Member who brought a Motion recently, Mr. M’Mithiaru, to review the MDGs goals and achievements made so far. It became evidently clear that, as a nation, we have failed to achieve what was set out to be achieved by 2015 through the MDGs because hunger still continues to stalk many homes in this country. As I had indicated earlier on, Ms. Murugi Mathenge told this House that over 24 districts are still relying on relief food. She also said that one million Kenyans are being given relief food by the Government and another 1.6 million are being taken care of by the World Food Programme. This is the case and yet had we, in the 1970s established a fertilizer factory, we would be telling a different tale today. If you look at our priorities as a nation, you will find that in the 1970s we looked at the option of putting up a fertilizer factory and a bullet factory."
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