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    "content": "is already five. Why do we want to give everything to the CS to appoint? Given that these are political appointments, somebody who has no knowledge of irrigation or anything to do with agriculture for that matter could get a chance. When we talk about irrigation, it is not only for crop farmers, but also for livestock farmers. They also need waters in some areas. There should be fair distribution everywhere. I also need to comment on the education issue which he mentioned. We should be very specific. When you talk of generalities and say university degrees, somebody with Bachelor of Arts in home science or Bachelor of Arts in history will be appointed chairman of a parastatal like this. If you get the best and the good advice from the chief executive who is capable, but in a political country anything is possible so we need to be very specific with these issues. The Yatta canal which was done during the colonial times - at time of the Second World War - by Italian prisoners is still functioning and helping the people of Yatta. While in River Tana, at the Turkwel Gorge area people are dying because they do not have enough food. I will just call it inefficiency, literally. When I am going to North Eastern through Garissa and I pass through Ukambani area, I see big lagas dry and big gorges which if a dam was done and water was stored properly we would not be suffering like this. You go to Wajir or the North Eastern, you cannot travel in every rainy season because of floods and that water goes to waste. After one week is when you see water, then the whole place is green. There is a certain dry area between Modogashe and Habaswein. I do not know whether some body was making fun of it, but he told me they flew over the area with an investor and told him that there were my rice farms, that is the grass which grow in that place after it had rained; and the guy believed it. Nevertheless, after one week, there is nothing. The water in those areas, for example, the Lorian swamp on the Ewaso Ngiro River disappears near Habasorri; a place called the railway swamps. I saw a research done by the Ministry of Agriculture in the 1970s which stated that if we irrigated that area, it would supply food in Nairobi for 30years; the food harvested from that swam. In Kenya we have no lack of research or people with brains. Unfortunately, I do not know what happens to us once we are given positions of authority or made in charge of something. You forget what you are supposed to do and then you just think of your tummy"
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