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    "id": 1113206,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lagdera, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mohamed Hire",
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        "legal_name": "Mohamed Hire Garane",
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    "content": "August 2021, a similar Adjournment Motion was brought to this House and we exhaustively debated. Three months down the line, we have not seen any response on the ground. Even after the President of the Republic of Kenya declared drought as a national disaster, the response has been painfully slow if at all there has been any. We have been to the constituencies and counties and absolutely nothing is going on. I do not know when this help will come. We have allocated Kshs2 billion to help in the response to the drought but, the sad thing is that response will come late in the day when all our livestock and people are already dead. The response will come when everybody is already seriously affected by the drought. We are cautioning everyone. What is wrong with this Government? We have been crying day and night so that our people can get some help. I do not know, whether the people of the North belong to this country or not. In other places, if a landslide occurs, we will see choppers and a lot of humanitarian response. But an area as vast as northern Kenya is getting no response even after the declaration by the President that the drought is a national disaster. The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) has thousands of water bowsers. NYS has thousands of water bowsers. All those water bowsers are lying idle in the camps. Why have they not been taken to the North to give water to our people? We were told that the Government has a programme called Off-take, in which it buys weak livestock from our people. Nothing is going on. We were told they are going to provide hay to the livestock, but nothing is going on. The National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) has billions of shillings lying in its accounts. What are they doing with the money? This is a very sorry state. If nothing is done in a couple of days, we will not be talking about the people in the North. We see many presidential candidates encouraging people to go and register to vote. How does a hungry man go to register as a voter? They cannot even get water! They are not even in their villages. They have moved thousands of kilometres away. Some have moved to the Ethiopian border and some to the Somalia border. You then wonder why a country like Kenya cannot take proper measures to respond to the situation. Weaker neighbouring countries have better response measures than ours. This is sad. Finally, UPYA is the new kid on the block. UPYA is a vehicle we are going to negotiate with to allow us to sit at the table. I am sure if UPYA had a stake in the Government, we would not be talking about these issues. It is because somebody would be sitting at the table to raise the issues of northern Kenya. It is not Upuzi ; it is called UPYA. With those few remarks, I support this Motion."
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