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    "id": 1094434,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1094434/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Horr, FAP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chachu Ganya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 18,
        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Drought is not a disaster. It only becomes a disaster and an emergency if we fail to plan for it. In the 10th Parliament, I sponsored the National Drought Management Authority Bill and today, it is an institution. I have been around these issues for some time now. When we fail to plan, fail to invest in drought management interventions, do not invest in good time in water resource management and do not make our food secure by providing the necessary interventions that we need to produce food, then drought becomes a disaster. Basically, failure to plan and intervene at the appropriate time is when drought becomes an emergency and causes a disaster. If, as a country, we invested in these arid and semi-arid counties in terms of water interventions and putting up the necessary water facilities and water points, whether they are pans, dams and strategic boreholes, drought would not be a disaster. I heard Hon. Sankok questioning what the NDMA is doing. What can they do? They have no funds. As a House, we do not appropriate funds for them. They are willing to intervene. They are in all our counties. They have the necessary drought mitigation plans in place, but they cannot intervene simply because they have no funds. We have failed as a House and as a Government to 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."
}