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    "id": 788073,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/788073/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Thank you. You need to take time to educate these new Members but they are learning through time. All I am saying is that we should be able to allocate enough resources to agriculture through the Budget. I am just repeating myself. Ten per cent of the GDP is what the Maputo Declaration suggested. Look at the budgetary allocation even in the current financial year; only 3 per cent was given to agriculture. Therefore, something is amiss. We have ourselves to blame for it because we should be able to accommodate that. I went round recently and I found out that we have high potential in the county governments. I would like to inform the Member for Tharaka that when I was the Managing Director of the Tana and Athi River Development Authority (TARDA), we came up with the idea of the High Grand Falls Dam, which has taken a very long time to be implemented. The project should have taken off because it was supposed to provide irrigation to Upper Eastern. Of course, we had the idea of having an Export Processing Zone (EPZ) park where we would have recreational facilities in that area. There was enough land for it. As you try to implement that project, please refer to me because I am its initiator. I am happy because – as it has been mentioned – the project is going to take off. Let us discuss. I took part and had people from Portugal who wanted to put so much money in it. Let us talk about it because great ideas were there. I think they are lying in shelves somewhere in TARDA."
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