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    "content": "prices for the farmers. That way, farmers will be able to support this nation. It is, therefore, upon the Government to take serious steps and formulate policies that will lead towards the formation of a fertilizer factory. My view is that the factory should be set up where the grain basket of Kenya is, that is, Rift Valley Province. We know that Rift Valley Province feeds this nation. That is where the large scale farmers are. You cannot say that you want to set up such a factory in Kisii – we do not have land there. We need land to grow maize and bananas. So, it is really an issue of economics where the factory will be set up. We require political goodwill from the leadership. We need to listen and implement. People are dying because of poverty. There is no food for people to eat. These are things that should not be happening because we have a lot of rain throughout the year, but we let all that water drain to Lake Victoria or Indian Ocean. We keep nothing for purposes of irrigation and yet this Government has money. We cannot say that this Government is poor. Year in, year out, billions of shillings are given out to support those who are faced with drought. This money ought to have been budgeted to support farming activities. Nobody would come here to say that they do not have money to build dams, buy pipes, or buy pumps. When there is a crisis, money is always available. As we talk now, there is money available to everybody to buy maize, beans, water and everything. It is like business activity for some people! Why should this money not be used every year to build dams and create irrigation systems? To say that money is not there is a question of lack of political goodwill, or it is a deliberate effort to make it a ritual so that whenever there is drought a few people get an opportunity to make money. One cannot understand when the Government says that it has no money, but when there is a crisis, like the one we have now, money is available in billions. We need a system that is good for the common good of the mwananchi."
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