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    "id": 1094424,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "Where is the NDMA? They are supposed to take care of these areas. Where are the people we pay a lot of money at the weather forecast department? It is so that they forecast for us so that we can plan ahead. If we can plan in this House and allocate money so that we feed those who will eventually be affected by drought, why do we not instead empower the same communities so that they are already empowered come drought? If we can plan to buy them a sack of maize each, cooking oil and powder milk, why can we not buy for them maize seeds, jembes and fertilisers in advance so that we can empower them? If we can provide drinking water for them, why do we not provide irrigation water, noting that we have a lot of underground water in Kenya? There is Mount Kilimanjaro; there is Mount Kenya; there is the Aberdare Ranges and there is Mt. Elgon. They have water above. You only need a piping system to take water to most of the lowlands and we will have irrigation. Is the drought in Kajiado, Narok, northern Kenya, Isiolo, Moyale and Marsabit worse than the drought in Qatar and other such places? The answer is “No”. It is because these areas have been marginalised for a long time through Sessional Paper 10 of 1965. It is high time we organised ourselves and declared this drought a national disaster. As we organise ourselves to feed them this year, let us also prepare ourselves in advance so that we do not end up with perennial droughts every now and then, with people facing starvation in future. We can easily turn our lowlands and drylands into areas like Libya and Israel if we put in place measures that will assist. Our people and livestock are facing death. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you know because you come from Narok South, specifically a place called Loita, where there was that brave The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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