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    "id": 787324,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/787324/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musimba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I want to make a contribution about what the Member for Kaiti had mentioned about the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in our syllabus, provision of adequate resources and the general development. This must be one of the issues which Hon. Tiren mentioned about agriculture and fertiliser. If we have a database which is ably developed and percolation of ICT within every single locality, we would see a lot of tracing of the possible damages towards food security in this country. It is important for our bread basket, which is the Rift Valley and the greater Uasin Gishu, to have adequate resources which will enable our farmers to sustain this nation to greater heights. Without food sustainability, we risk the exposure of currency fluctuations which is worldwide. When oil prices fluctuated all over the world, people who bore the biggest brunt were Kenyans. The grave issue raised in the House today is the recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) pronouncement that it was going to remove support to our currency for import cover. I applaud Hon. Members for bringing the Motion at the Zero Hour. It has to be highlighted and a full inquiry needs to be initiated by this House and given to the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock and the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation as a joint taskforce to address this particular plight. As we move forward and we have seen this before, every country protects its food reserves when there is a global crisis in farming. We need to look inward to develop the capacity to safeguard the future and posterity of the nation."
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