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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Josphat Wachira",
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    "content": "of the conflicts, be they human to human conflicts or human-wildlife conflicts that have characterised this country for quite some time. The policy will also address food insecurity. We are all aware of what happens whenever we have drought in this country. We have had to turn to the international community for food. Once we have a land policy in place, we will enhance land utility to address food insecurity. We will also address the issue of environmental degradation that we have been witnessing in our country. By having a policy, we are simply saying we would like to use our land, which is freely given to us by God, in a manner that is likely to benefit all of us in this country. Through this policy, we will be able to maximise utility of our land. We will particularly give special attention to the areas that could contribute a lot to food security in this country. I have in mind my constituency, which has the potential of meeting this country’s demand for rice, but we are not able to do so because of lack of the necessary infrastructure, including water. We would also be addressing poverty among some of our farmers who for a long time have been working very hard, but getting very little due to lack of focus on their farming. By having this policy, I believe we will have the necessary infrastructure that will help in ensuring that we produce crops much cheaply so that at the end of the day, farmers can go home smiling like other business persons out there. This land policy will also enable us to come up with ways of ensuring that land tenure is beneficial to some of our land owners. In my constituency, we are guided by a law that was put in place in 1958. We are guided by law in CAP. 347 that was put in place in 1958. Our farmers do not have any idea about when they will get stable land tenure to enable them to access facilities such as finances to enable them farm in a better way. This policy will address some of those areas. Having worked as a conflict advisor in this region, I know that most of our cross- border counties are characterised by conflicts that will be addressed by a proper policy that engages our border countries to come up with a better way of managing natural resources that quite often, cause conflicts in this region. I have in mind a resource like Lake Turkana where when we have drought and the lake is shrinking, our border counterparts, the Merille of Ethiopia, would follow that lake and would assume that the border is the lake itself thereby causing conflicts in the region. I am hoping that through this policy, we will come up with that partnership. I am also hoping that through this policy, we will have flood management systems that will link up with other management systems like water, so that all players and stakeholders may come together to reduce on the conflict that we have been witnessing such as upstream and lower stream conflicts caused by water. This is one policy that will be beneficial to my people in Mwea."
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