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    "id": 788166,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/788166/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okuome",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Andrew Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": "I spoke with the East African Breweries Limited (EABL) so that my constituency can be enlisted as one of the areas from where the raw material for the new factory in Kisumu is got from. They accepted my request. However, they asked me whether we have any irrigation scheme in Karachunyo. Of course, we do. Without an irrigation scheme, it would mean that we rely on one harvesting season and that is not sufficient. Since we have a small irrigation scheme in Karachuonyo, they were wondering whether that could be expanded. I am talking of Kimira- Oluch Irrigation Scheme, which covers two constituencies. Much as we want to use Kimira- Oluch, it is not functioning properly. It is now two years and yet the project is still incomplete. I would wish to ask the Government to complete it. The main canals are finished, but the feeder canals are non-existent in a number of places hampering the farming level we would like to achieve. I have even spoken to the NIB which will soon be replaced by the National Irrigation Authority. Its problem is that it does not have money. It has the will, but it lacks money. We have extension officers, but it is like they are non-existent. They do not even have bicycles to move from one point to another. They are extension officers and they should be in a position to reach farmers in all corners of the constituency in order to advise them in terms of engaging in meaningful agriculture."
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