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    "id": 803848,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "I do not know if we are commenting now but I will say a few things. I support this in the sense that Kenya, being a country that relies heavily on agriculture for its economic development, must make practical steps to enhance irrigation. This is because, for the country to continue relying on rain and praying to God that rains can come on time and in adequate amounts for the country to grow food both for consumption and exports is to live in the past. This is an initiative that must be supported. However, even as I support it, the previous management of the National Irrigation Board had serious problems. I say this because in the last Parliament I was in the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives. I am happy to note that since the change of guard there has been a lot of improvement in that department both in the National Irrigation Board and the State Department of Irrigation. This is something we should support as Members so that we can enhance not only food security but also capacity to export the surplus."
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