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    "id": 736518,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "We also need to establish large maize farms because it is the staple food in this country. You find there are no big maize farms yet the population consuming maize is high. We end up importing maize from our neighbour, Tanzania which has a bigger population than us but because they have bigger farms and produce a lot of maize, they have some to spare and sell to us. We need irrigation in those farms. There was a noble proposal by the Government. One of the flagship projects of the current Jubilee Government was to irrigate 1 million acres of land. That is yet to be realised. I strongly challenge the Government because the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries which was charged with this should at least turn this into reality and then we would not talk about it again. Betting has been the talk of every other town and market. In the proposed Estimates in the Budget which was recently read by the Cabinet Secretary (CS) of the National Treasury recently, he mentioned taxing proceeds from betting. This has become a modern problem which should be checked once and for all. It has turned Kenyans and our children into gamblers. Everybody has turned to looking for free money and people have stopped working because they want to see this money. The other day somebody won Kshs221 million. There are people who have started sitting down on their gadgets and keep on betting hoping to get the same amount of money. The time we waste engaging in betting is productive time that we would have used to engage in other important things like farming and also starting industries. We should not even target taxing betting as such. We should try to eradicate the same or put in place strong measures which will make sure that this does not get into the nerves of our young people who should be trained to be productive instead of sitting down and idling in casinos and other places. The assembling of vehicles locally, opening of new industries and expanding our EPZ zones will go a long way in creating jobs for our young generation and also increase in production. As I conclude, I request that this Bill be fast-tracked so that we can implement it and save our people from the expenses of running their families without food so that they can at least get a balanced diet. I support the Bill."
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