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    "id": 1113225,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ahmed Kolosh",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Kolosh Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to join my colleagues in support of this Adjournment Motion because of the seriousness of this drought. The effects and problems caused by drought have been said by those who spoke before me. It is important to say that it seems there is a wider Government strategy to punish the people of Northern Kenyan for reasons that we do not know. The inaction by the Government, especially on the response to the drought, can just be described as genocide. When people lose their property and lives because of the inaction of the Government, then it is as good as saying that the Government has caused the problem. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are many problems that the Government has instigated. Some of them include the educational crisis in the North. For the last three years, our children have not seen teachers. There is insecurity and the Report we have just been debating in Marsabit is just but one. Every other constituency in the region has one problem or another related to insecurity, whether it is Al-Shabaab, clan clashes or differences between communities. The Government has not done anything to bring those problems to an end. It seems that the Government enjoys the problems taking place in the North. To make matters worse, our people have been undercounted during the census period. This was a deliberate Government policy. As I stand here, I can tell you that the number of people in my constituency have been reduced by half, and I have said this many times before. This is why I disagree with Members who think that now coalescing around some amorphous bodies like UPYA or whatever will solve our problems. There is no ‘table” that is greater and stronger than being a Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Planning. If I was in the Cabinet today as the CS for the National Treasury and could not do anything, up to and including sending emergency 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."
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