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    "content": "employment. We realise that there are many unemployed youth and if the irrigation policy was in place and proper irrigation done, we would be able to encourage them to take part in agribusiness. However, right now, many of our youths will engage in such practices as drug abuse. Sometimes we even have others joining some of those militia groups because of being idle. If we can sensitize our people on this and engage the counties, most of our youths will be engaged in the proper manner. Thirdly, our Jubilee Government Manifesto is standing on four pillars and the most important one, of course, is food security. To be food secure will only be a pipe dream if irrigation is not properly looked into because, as I said, of late we cannot rely on rain-fed agriculture. All the four pillars in the manifesto are just intertwined. If we are going to be food secure, we will be able to provide many of the products into the industries. We will even be able to ensure that people are healthy when they get sufficient food. A healthy people will reduce costs on medical care. I realise that if the counties are engaged to take part in this irrigation, we will be able to actually achieve these four pillars and even go beyond. It is quite shameful or absurd to find that our country has to rely on relief food. My county of Bomet used to produce sufficient food to the extent of even having surplus but right now, it is in the list of counties that are going to rely on relief food. With those four points, I support."
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