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    "id": 719900,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
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    "content": "million. Interestingly, the hospital has no fence. Dogs and people move everywhere. You start asking yourself why they erected a gate without a fence. That is what we call wastage of resources. We have also heard of wheelbarrows costing so much money when we know the cost of a wheelbarrow. We have heard of unnecessary trips which are called benchmarking trips and some governors live like kings. You go to some counties and find governors ferrying their toilets in every place they go. Even if they come to your homestead as visitors, they will carry them. They store them in Prados. This is wastage of resources and it is corruption. I do not want to dwell on that because it has been talked about. For us to have a good Budget, we do not have to reinvent the wheel. We should just ask countries that are doing very well, for example, China and the Asian tigers, what they have done. They concentrated in very few areas. First is agriculture. They insisted on value addition. This song has been sung. More money should be deployed in agriculture because it touches so many people. The other one is infrastructure development. That is what the Government is trying to do with the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), developing ports and airports. Then there is manufacturing. These are the kind of things that would create jobs for the youth. The next Budget, not the 2017/2018, has to look at those areas for this country to grow at a double digit rate. That way, everybody will eat part of the cake. There is drought everywhere in this country. I want to appeal to the Government that it is not the county government that can tackle this problem. The national Government has to provide relief food to all the 23 counties. It is not 23 counties only. I have seen sugar cane drying up in western Kenya. Since I was young, I have never seen drought in western Kenya. This has affected everybody because of climate change. Let food be distributed to save people. I have seen people from Turkana and other areas so emaciated. Their cows and camels are dying. Let us create an emergency fund with enough money through the national Government to address this problem before it is too late. However, the long-term solution to this is water harvesting, storage and distribution. The areas that have been agriculturally productive like western Kenya, the Rift Valley and Mount Kenya region are so populated. If you go to North Eastern, some parts of the Rift Valley, Lower Eastern and some parts of the Coast, you find a lot of land which is less populated with seasonal rivers, but no water storage. There are no big dams. The Government should put in place a mechanism of building mega dams in every county for irrigation purposes. This rain-fed agriculture will not take us very far."
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