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    "id": 948729,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to give my views on the Report of the ad hoc Committee, which has just been laid on the Floor of the House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is unfortunate that as much as we are talking about devolution and agriculture being key in the past years, we have killed our own economy. When we read the findings and recommendations that the ad hoc Committee has given, being a farmer and one of the citizens who relies on farming, I feel a bit disturbed. This is because it is very unfortunate that Kenya has not taken advantage of devolution, or the fact that agriculture is devolved. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to point out that despite agriculture being devolved, many agricultural institutions are dead. As much as agriculture is devolved, the Executive still holds some funds at the national level that are supposed to support the agricultural sector, which is sad. Many of the agricultural sectors are dead because of lack of funding. The country needs to relook at agriculture and see where we went wrong. We are talking about the tea industry today, and we were talking about the sugar industry just the other day. I congratulate Sen. Malalah, because we are suffering. Some of us grew to be what we are because of some of these sectors. I used to enjoy seeing my father going to receive money from the bank, because he had harvested what he planted. Nowadays, it is the opposite. We are uprooting what is supposed to put money in our pockets. We are headed nowhere as a country. We need to relook at agriculture. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us talk the truth, allocate money to the agricultural sector and implement the recommendations of the Committee. This is because this team The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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