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    "id": 103269,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/103269/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 381,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am sad that the Government has refused to fund the Ministry of Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands, which was basically intended to make sure that 80 per cent of the land mass in this country is utilized. You cannot create a Ministry to perform functions that you require and yet you undermine it and frustrate it by not funding it. We want to tell the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance that we will be vigilant this time round. If the Budget that he will read before the House on Thursday does not have sufficient resources to this Ministry, we will propose that the Prime Minister and the President abolish it. They should abolish it completely because it has given us false hopes that through its creation, people in that part of the country will realise development. Why should you create a Ministry and not fund it? If that Ministry was sufficiently funded, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, perhaps the spirit of this Motion would have been realized. This Motion proposes 2,000 acres but there are parts of this country that have huge land mass. Those areas can even irrigate more than 2,000 acres of land. Therefore, this is just a notice to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance. I know he is preparing to read the Budget tomorrow but he must factor in sufficient funding."
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