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    "id": 736618,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kajuju",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Florence Kajuju",
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    "content": "takes the earliest opportunity to look at amendments that can support the feeding of over 40 million Kenyans. Therefore, that statement is out of order and ought not to have been stated by an honourable Member in the first place. Going to this Bill, you and I as learned friends know that the law is made for man; man is not made for the law. Therefore, if there is a situation that does not favour man, then that situation must be rectified through an amendment so that we can be comfortable with the law as it is. It is therefore important that this amendment has come to be. Women are the ones who suffer the most when there is drought and if there is insufficient food, especially unga. We know for a fact that the price of unga has skyrocketed. The little money that mama mboga gets cannot buy unga yet unga is a basic commodity. Once we are able to support these families through reduction of the price of unga then families will be comfortable. I think it is going to apply across the board. It is important to reduce the taxes on foodstuff. It is also important to allow importation of maize so that we address the current shortage. As I say this, I am also conscious of the fact that we normally get quite some huge amount of rain. We need to manage the water that we get from the rains in this country. We should think of conserving rain water so that we use it for irrigation when the dry spell comes. Kenya needs to increase its use of irrigation. There are times when we get enough rainfall and other times we do not get enough of it. In Meru, when I seek relief food from the Ministry, they get shocked. They wonder how come that can happen. What they do not understand is that there are arid and semi-arid areas in Meru County. The residents often go without food. This should not happen if we do irrigation. We also need to construct dams and dig boreholes in order to address the issue of shortage of rains. This is a good Bill. It will take care of the shortages that we have and, of course, it will lead to redemption of the prices that affect the common"
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