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    "id": 7866,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/7866/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 148,
        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": "Having opened up our borders, we believe that it is possible in future an activity as crucial as grain handling to be opened up for competition. We do look forward, as a country, to the day when we will not be handling grain from other countries in our country. We look forward to the day when, as a country, we will remove Kenya from the list of food insecure nations of the world. This is because we are capable producing enough and we have the potential. God has blessed this country immensely with good rains and fertile land. The farmers of this country are capable of producing not just enough to feed this nation, but to export and feed other nations of the African Continent and beyond. We hope that the day will come when the grain handling facilities will be used to export grains to other countries. We also hope that the Government will do something towards implementing a resolution of this House that we passed when I brought a Motion for the establishment of a fertilizer factory in this country. We know that due to the delays at the Port of Mombasa, farmers have not been able to access inputs at the right time. Because of the threat of piracy in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, we have had serious delays in the importation of fertilizer, and even the importation of grains through this port. We hope that the Government will keep its promise. As somebody mentioned, those concerned are already carrying out feasibility studies for the establishment of a fertilizer factory in this country. We will have a fertilizer factory established. We already have a seed company, the Kenya Seed Company, that produces the best seed in Africa and supplies seed to Tanzania, Uganda and other countries in the East African region. We hope that with the establishment of the fertilizer factory, and since now we have a seed company in Kenya, we will use not just the Port of Mombasa and the facility at the Grain Bulk Handling Company in Mombasa, but also the proposed Dongo Kundu and Lamu Port projects; we will be able to use these ports to export grain to other countries; that is the desire of many in this nation. With those many remarks, I beg to support."
}