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    "id": 788074,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/788074/?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": "Hon. Speaker, because of the high potential of this country - and I think the Leader of the Majority Party has mentioned it - we need to have very strong laws to maintain it. As it is in Egypt and even South Sudan for some of us who have traveled there, there are very good regulations and laws that govern irrigation. When you go to a supermarket today, you will find that water comes from this country and goes all the way to Egypt. What happens? Egypt is now exporting food to this country and yet, they get water from here; the water you are seeing around. The idea is that we should have passed this Bill like yesterday, so that we can have those dams. Apart from the High Grand Falls Dam, we also have a proposed dam on River Nzoia which will, again, provide very good irrigation activities along River Nzoia down to Budalangi. We should move fast because this country is having problems of food production year in, year out. It is our own mistakes. Lastly, with the passage of this Bill - and I hope it will be assented to by the President - we will have small irrigation schemes. Recently, the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock toured North Rift and South Rift. We realized that there is a lot of potential for irrigation schemes in those areas. For example, the Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) has a lot of land. We are talking about over 50,000 acres of land. All they do is to depend The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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