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    "content": "cent of Kenya’s resource, that is water, flows into Lake Victoria and we harness zero out of that water resource. What happened? The Egyptian Government going by an old agreement, put in all the hydrologists in the Ministry of Water in Kenya and they are still there up to date, monitoring the water levels. There was a time we attempted to create a dam at Timboroa level so that we can irrigate all those lands downstream and produce food. I have never seen a fierce fight in international organizations in the UN system than the one I faced during that period of time. If there is anything that will take this country into war, it would have been the use or the curtailment of water flow into Lake Victoria to go down to river Nile, joined by the Blue Nile from Ethiopia, to satisfy the populations. But there was a condition then to the Egyptian Government that they should not expand any more settlement areas and cities But what has happened since then? They have expanded. So, I hope that whoever is in the ministry of Water today – Hon. Eugene Wamalwa – should look at that one area because it touches on international waters. We should get an agreeable agreement or treaty which also satisfies our need for food production. I can see that time is over, but this is an area that I would have gone on and on because it is an important subject. This is an area which will also create employment. If you see the number of youths hanging around in towns and cities, these are the people who cause problems of insecurity. So, unemployment is related to insecurity. Once we have robust irrigation schemes, we should sort out some of these problems that we are facing in this nation. I am happy that I am in the Senate and I expect that as we contribute, it is going to be a bipartisan House. This must be a uniting House; a House of unity where we tackle National issues at this level because they concern everybody regardless of our party affiliations. We should put our parties in the closet now when we are in this august Assembly so that we discuss matters that will alleviate the problems of Kenyans. Unemployment remains a very itchy point and, therefore, we must address it squarely; if not, we are going to face a social revolution in this country. One thing that can bring about a revolution is the stomach. If you do not satisfy your people in food production and employment, they will bring you a revolution. We have created an education system that straddles the whole country and, therefore, we must teach our children. Agriculture is one of our most important subjects and I know this because my experience in education was that the children from rural areas performed better in Agriculture. If you look at the aggregates, they scored a grade ‘A’ whereas children in urban and city centres scored very low marks because they had nil application in agriculture. A rural child wakes up in the morning and the first thing he or she does is to go the farm. He or she does the same in the evening. Therefore, they are familiar with these things. That is why they are able to assimilate and relate to agriculture. Let us go the Israel way where they turned a dessert into a highly potentially productive region. Kenya can do it, even though more than 84 per cent of our land is arid and semi- arid. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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