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    "id": 788165,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/788165/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okuome",
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        "legal_name": "Andrew Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": "problem. There was no food. The Government had to do all things possible so that Kenyans could feed themselves. This is not what we deserve. Irrigation is key for us to have food for ourselves. If we engage in agriculture, our youth will get employment. If we engage in irrigation, because the best way of doing agriculture is through irrigation and my colleagues have emphasised that enough, our youth will be employed in the agricultural sector. However, we need to do agriculture which will also help us to be industrialised. We need to be industrialised using agricultural raw materials for our needs. If this is done, then the industry will employ many of our youth. This is one way of solving the problem of unemployment that we face. Food security is important. Some of us may not even have land to till. The industries I am talking about, be they small or big, as long as they are agriculturally based, will employ people. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, during last week’s short recess, I was in Karachuonyo, my home constituency and talked to my people about agriculture. I told them of the need to engage in agriculture so as to enable them to get some money. That is one way of empowering the ordinary person. They brought to my attention the inadequacy of rain water for agriculture. Our rain cannot be relied on entirely. However, with irrigation schemes, we can have more than one harvesting season."
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