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    "id": 993748,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/993748/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "competition and infights within the Government at the expense of focusing on delivering to the people of Kenya. We are now told that the answer to every problem is to have a stimulus package for this and that. From where will we raise the money for the stimulus package and feed over 12 million Kenyans who directly depend on agriculture? This Statement by Sen. Khaniri is good. However, it must move beyond that. The last part of it challenges the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries to do a proper inquiry. We have been telling the various committees to come up with reports of various things that they are doing. Do they operate only when we raise Statements or they act suomotu to take up such challenges? For example, the question Kenyans are asking is what Kenya will be like beyond COVID-19 in relation to food security. Therefore, the Committee, by its own Motion, without being pushed, should look at this issue and bring a comprehensive report to this House. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have a Cabinet Secretary (CS) who, on one hand tells Kenyans that he will ensure that food security is achieved while on the other hand, he was quarrelling with his own governor in Meru two days ago about this function being devolved. So, there is passing of the buck between the national Government and county governments. Agriculture is a devolved function. However, counties receive very little money to carry out that important devolved function."
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