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    "id": 1094450,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1094450/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir East, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rashid Kassim",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13504,
        "legal_name": "Rashid Kassim Amin",
        "slug": "rashid-kassim-amin-2"
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    "content": " Okay. Drought is predictable and has timelines. Even the vegetation cover can give indicators of drought, but if there is no proper information sharing on drought weather, then whatever we do as a nation is insignificant. Around 8 million people and their livelihood are being affected. Children are not going to school. Movement of livestock from our boundary to Somalia is huge. My constituency has a number of wells which provide water but there is a high population density in those places. They are staying there for nearly 24 hours before they can get water and some of them have crossed to Somalia. Schools have been closed in areas that have been affected by drought. A place called Handaki which is towards Somalia is hosting the entire livestock population because it borders Somalia. Others which are in Wajir County have moved to Isiolo. Yesterday as we were talking about this matter, we were arbitrating between the pastoral communities of Isiolo and Wajir West. This has been attributed to movement of people and livestock and failure to accept the norms and culture of resource utilisation which are available between communities. All those have been in place. I request the Executive to declare the situation an emergency. Some of these interventions can be undertaken quickly as emergencies. For example, the offtake plan. You all know that the Executive has taken over the KMC, luckily. It is under the supervision of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). It may not have been its mandate but the idea was to support it so that we can have a definite market for pastoral communities in Kenya. 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."
}