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    "id": 774134,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/774134/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibiru",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13196,
        "legal_name": "Charles Reubenson Kibiru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Speaker. I was almost getting worried that you have forgotten me. I resonate with this Bill. Having worked in the water sector, I have one or two insights about water. I also come from a County that feeds Nairobi through irrigation. Kirinyaga County has a lot of irrigation, including the Mwea Irrigation Scheme. Madam Temporary Speaker, from a strategic point of view, it is important from the onset that we look at the irrigation in a strategic way. I have in mind that the authority should be able to ensure that in the counties where we will do irrigation, there is special planning or mapping to ensure that counties do enjoy comparative advantage. We should avoid a situation where we encourage irrigation and we over produce one type of crop. When we talk about comparative advantage, we need to see counties producing what they can produce better, given the environment where they are situated. It is important that the authority be able to do that. Sen. Mugo has emphasised a point that I also wanted to emphasis on why for many years the National Irrigation Board has been referred to as “slaves have no use”. That is, when it is translated in Kikuyu or in"
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