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    "id": 1113203,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "governors and other leaders would be able to, at least, provide water and food to our people. It is very disheartening and shameful that in 2021, one of our own, a pastoralist whose constituency has been worst affected, is at the helm of the national Treasury. History will judge us. He will be remembered as the Minister who looked on as our people died and also sent money to other areas where there was water and food. Shame on him! The essence of my Adjournment Motion is this: We need to find solutions. The Government needs to provide a solution. It needs to rally the donor community and the private sector the way we did it in 2011 and save the lives of our people. You can read what is going on in the Horn of Africa. Other countries are doing better. I am sure the over 80 Members of Parliament who come from those 14 counties… Unfortunately, most of them are not here. I said, \"Most\". I am sure some of them are here: Hon. Chachu, Hon. Sophia, Hon. Sankok, Hon. Kolosh, the Member for Isiolo North, the Member for Tharaka and many others from Meru County. This is the time, more than any other time, when we must rise to the occasion. We must forget our political affiliation. Those who were involved in the handshake need to walk to the national Treasury. Those who are in this House and are in other political affiliations must discard that. We must not behave the way we did during the Petition that either way made Hon. Rasso the winner. It is because the original Report was implicating him. The amendment was not wanted. So, Hon. Rasso, you are a winner and I have said it. The Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC) of this House and the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security must rise to the occasion. We must call the Government to order. We must call the CS of the National Treasury, CS for Devolution and CS Matiang’i. The people of the North are dying. They are not dying because of the constant insecurity that they face or diseases; they are dying because of the effects of drought. They are dying because the Government’s response is not there or it is very slow. We want to ask the Government to talk to its friends and partners and create a humanitarian appeal to all our friends that food, water… Hon. Millie Odhiambo will agree with me that in 2011, when the then Prime Minister Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki were in charge, the Military and the National Youth Service (NYS) were mobilised and there were over ten trucks in every constituency affected, doing water trucking. What is wrong with this Government? Why is this Government so insensitive? What wrong have the people of Northern Kenya committed? I want to ask our friends who are running around with an outfit called UPYA or Upuzi : you will face the wrath of the almighty God. Our people are dying and you are selling Upuzi to our people. Our people will not buy that Upuzi . They know the kind of leaders they will choose. The contest is between Raila Odinga and William Ruto. The people of Upuzi, who is your candidate? You better say it. Why are you hiding? When you were in Garissa, you said it was Raila Odinga. When you come back, you want to hide. The horses have been defined. Shame on those in Government who come from Northern Kenya! Shame on you! You are walking on the graves of your…"
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