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    "id": 90852,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ogindo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 120,
        "legal_name": "Martin Otieno Ogindo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Vote. I want to support this Vote with a lot of disappointment. This is a country that does not seem to have its priorities right. We know that, rich or poor, we all require food. Our priority number one should be food security. I say that in light of the allocation that has been given to the Ministry of Agriculture. The Ministry of Agriculture, Vote 10, has an allocation of Kshs10 billion for Recurrent Expenditure. I want this country to compare that allocation with the Recurrent allocation that is going to Vote 8, which is the Department of Defence. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to demonstrate to you how upside down our priority is. Many Kenyans are dying of hunger and yet we are allocating more resources to the Ministry of State for Defence. Kenya has not fought any known war since Independence. Presently, Kenya is under no threat from external forces. Nobody dies from this, but many people die from hunger, yet we still do not allocate adequate funds to the Ministry of Agriculture. This country is a signatory to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). One of them is to secure food security. Having appended our signatures there, we are not making any deliberate efforts to ensure that we secure food security. The allocations that go to agriculture are not spent productively for us to attain food security. We hear that Kshs2 billion is being allocated to buy food. If we spend Kshs2 billion as an investment in agriculture, we will have a long way to go. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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