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    "id": 1113217,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "When you see some of us passionately fighting for the leadership of the hustlers, it is because those leaders know what it means to go hungry. If you tell some of our leaders who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths that you have not eaten food, they will most likely check your temperature to see if you have malaria, typhoid or lack of appetite! They do not know what it means to sleep on an empty stomach! Your parents could have done everything possible, but failed to get you anything to eat. Our animals are not only emaciated, but are dying in large numbers. We plead, through the House and through you, that private companies, the Kenya Red Cross and the international community, should come in and save us by giving us humanitarian aid. We need to rescue those people. It is not those days when maize rations had to be transported to all parts of the country. We are now in a digital era. Money can be transferred digitally using M-Pesa or any other mobile money transfer platform. It will reach the beneficiaries within seconds and they will have the purchasing power to save their dying children, pregnant women and fathers. We need approximately Kshs150 billion for that project. The Government can afford that. It is not too poor to afford a mere Kshs150 billion that is required to save its citizens. We have heard of an Off-take project, but we have not seen it. I have a ranch. My cows are dying in large numbers. We have only heard in the media that there will be an Off-take project and that they will buy our animals. How much will they buy our animals for? It is high time the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA), which is supposed to be a custodian of the funds for arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs), came up with projects like harvesting grass. During the rainy season, there is more grass than animals. It should be put into haystacks. It is high time we stocked animal feeds in our food reserves. If you only feed human beings and leave out animals... You know some of us are fed by those animals through milk and meat. We may die because you are feeding human beings but not animals at the same time. Lastly, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the characters in the weather department are earning salaries without doing their job. If they predicted the weather well, the country and pastoralists would be able to prepare themselves. The President declared drought a national disaster, but doing so is not enough. That is why we are telling him, with all due respect, that his citizens are dying. Come and save them because they elected you so that you can protect them. I support the Motion."
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