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    "id": 1113235,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1113235/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
        "slug": "francis-kuria-kimani"
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    "content": "credit card written Kshs100 retailing at Kshs120. You could clearly see that the airtime is Kshs100 but it is trading at Kshs120. Why would people still be willing to buy? There is a great disparity in terms of movement of this food or what we would call factors of production from where they are produced to where they are needed. The moment we address this by, for example, building infrastructure so that when people harvest cabbages and carrots in Molo, they can reach the dry areas in a matter of hours... Most of these foods are perishable. The other solution is making sure that food is stored. During drought, whether there is sheep or cattle in the affected areas, they can be harvested and put in cold rooms or dried and stored until that time that they can be consumed. We always have times when we throw away food because it is in surplus; and a few months later we find the same people feeling hungry. It is not just the people of North Eastern that feel hungry, but even people in our constituencies. When COVID-19 came, the Government was sending Ksh1,000 every week to needy families. However, that stopped, although COVID-19 did not end. We still have curfew and people’s businesses are still not open. People who were getting these services from the Government stopped getting them, and they are still unemployed. The other issue is to ensure that we grow food through the shamba system, which used to work well. In our constituency, for example, people would plant in the forest, take care of the forest and they would have a bumper harvest. As you can imagine, the land inside the forest does not need fertilizer and pesticides. It is fertile for production. I support this Motion and urge the national Government and the county governments to rise up to the occasion and deal with this drought menace once and for all. With that, I submit."
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