{"id":896940,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/896940/?format=json","text_counter":201,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mwingi West, WDM-K","speaker_title":"Hon. Charles Nguna","speaker":{"id":13445,"legal_name":"Charles Ngusya Nguna","slug":"charles-ngusya-nguna"},"content":"Food security is a burning issue in our country. Majority of our counties, especially the 23 counties that were mentioned earlier, are suffering from food insecurity. I expect us to construct more dams and come up with irrigation schemes instead of relying on rainfed type of agriculture. That is why I am tasking the National Irrigation Board (NIB) to ensure that the resources for constructing water pans are evenly distributed across our country."}