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    "speaker_name": "The Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Yes, and doing other things. But, more importantly, you were inspecting a water project. These are some of those things that we usually fight for our voters to get. At a small scale, I do not see why counties cannot prepare an irrigation system and facilitate it for communities at the local level on two or three acres of land. But where you are attracting an investor from other countries, the national Government plays a role to facilitate those investors to have a good investment environment to do what they are going to do and to recoup their investments. They can till one million acres of land and that means that the food prices for staple food, for example, maize, will be reduced. As such, you are able to remove the responsibility of farming in certain areas where there is no irrigation and maybe people can move to zero grazing of livestock, and so on, and so forth. So, the idea here is that there should be nothing suspicious when the national Government is involved in irrigation because it is not tilling the land and getting the benefits for itself. It is just facilitating either the local community or investors to do the irrigation projects. That is why this Bill recognizes situations where you are doing irrigation on a large scale and where the project is crossing counties, where you need to manage the water conservation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. had followed my speech when moving the Bill, I made it very clear that you cannot discuss irrigation without discussing water conservation. So, you are also going to deal with situations of upper and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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