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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Kitui County. I think what is required now is to boost the numbers that the Jubilee administration has already done more than ten times what has been done since Independence. Together with the Last Mile Programme, we need to provide enough transformers not only to public institutions like schools, community boreholes and health facilities but also to target the common mwananchi in areas where these long lines have been put by the Rural Electrification Authority (REA). There is need for provision of adequate transformers on the ground. I will now move to Vote D1161. This is to do with agriculture. Although this is a devolved function, we need, as the national Government, to come up with policies that diversify our agriculture with respect to ensuring that there is food security in this country. Irrigation is a function of the national Government that needs to be supported a lot. We need to come up with investments and innovations. We are an agriculture-based economy and I think a lot of money needs to be put in research on agriculture, especially now that we have a lot of drought. Rain-fed agriculture can no longer be reliable. Therefore, there is need for irrigated agriculture. We have to fund it. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in the subsector of livestock, which is facing a lot of challenges right now because of the drought, there needs to be adequate off take programmes. We also need to operationalise the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) to reclaim our position in the global market; that is both in Africa and in the European Union. Maybe we need to operationalise the local abattoirs that are in counties that are in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL). We really need to give them enough funds to be able to have that livestock off take at the grassroots level or in the sub-county level. Since it is a devolved function, in partnership with counties, we need to think of a permanent livestock insurance scheme because of this drought. Rainfall is failing all the time. We need to think of what we can do for that sector. The President has just ordered for a release of one million bags of maize from tomorrow in order to cushion the citizens from the high cost of maize floor. Possibly, the prize will come down from Kshs150 to Kshs115 per 2kg packet."
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