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    "id": 1113199,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1113199/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
    },
    "content": "From last year, the Meteorological Department gave a very bleak picture on the expected rains in the country. This year, the situation has not been any different. With the reduced and depressed rains or no rains at all, Kenyans in the arid and semi-arid areas are experiencing what I have never seen before. It is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis! Indeed, during the month of August 2021, most arid and semi-arid counties, including my own county of Garissa, remained generally dry and the rainfall received was below average. I have just come back from Garissa and I am sure the country is cognisant of the situation in the North. It has never happened before. The last time we saw this kind of drought was in 2011. Last month, the President declared the drought a national disaster. The situation is likely to worsen in the second half of 2021 with negative consequences for household food security, crop production and livestock production, especially for my people who are largely pastoralists. Access to water is a big issue. The drought that has affected this part of the country has been made worse by the COVID- 19 pandemic, which has had adverse effects on both the economy and the social status of those residents. Although the drought can be traced to last year, the phenomenon started even earlier when the country was faced with locust invasion. The insects cleared all the vegetation in the arid and semi-arid counties."
}