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    "id": 62144,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ogindo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martin Otieno Ogindo",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to second, and from the outset, I want to thank my colleague; hon. Eugene Wamalwa for his long overdue Motion. I have contributed here time and again that this country appears to have its priorities upside down. Looking at the budgets, you will see that agriculture and rural development have under 10 per cent. In fact, to be precise, it is 1.7 per cent. When you compare that with our expenditure on security which is about 6 per cent, you start wondering where our priority is. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am a Member of the Parliamentary Caucus on MDGs and the first MDG is to rid our country of extreme hunger and poverty. Today we have a new constitutional dispensation which creates 47 counties. I know that we will have different priorities, but one thing which is for sure is that every county needs food. Kenya is a blessed country; we are in the Equator where we have a variety of climatic conditions. We have a huge chunk of land and we know that food grows from land. The only limited ingredient there is the nutrients that food crops grow on. It is imperative that as a strategic policy, we consider having a fertilizer company in this country. I was privileged to attend a fertilizer conference recently in Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and the statistics available there is that, 60 per cent of the country’s fertilizer is imported by the private sector. The Government tries to supplement and brings in about 40 per cent. This fertilizer is a recurrent requirement in our economy. The leadership of this country has not given the agriculture sector and the need for fertilizer due attention. It is because our politics is founded on wrong philosophy. It is dictated by"
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