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    "id": 1113238,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1113238/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": "In this respect, there are people who also have huge needs. They are poor people. I speak for my people in Tigania West. Tigania West is next to Isiolo County. In fact, 95 per cent of Isiolo International Airport is in Tigania West. So, the climatic condition or the agroecology of Tigania is that of Isiolo. Today, I am happy that we are included in the list of those who are suffering. Sometimes Meru County is left out because some parts of Meru are next to Mt Kenya and are, therefore, considered to be well endowed in terms of food. Tigania is one of the lowland dry areas. We have more than 70 per cent of people requiring food, especially those near Isiolo, who need a lot of food. They are now migrating to other areas to look for money. They cannot register as voters, because voter registration is not a priority to people who are dying of hunger or who have lost their livestock to hunger. It is time our government woke up. We see a lot of inaction, laxity and confusion. Why should a government be confused in such a situation? We need to respond to this particular issue. A national disaster has already been declared by the President. The international community should now come in. When a national disaster has been declared, all resources, competencies, capacities and efforts are supposed to be put in place to deal with it. However, we do not see much of that happening. We see a sluggish response, if any. There is not so much happening in terms of reaching people. What are we waiting for? How many people and livestock do you want to see dead so that you can respond? I do not think we should be waiting for death. We should be a country moving in tandem with the trends of the 21st Century. In the international community, we are designated as a developing country. We are not even a least developed country. So, as a developing country in the 21st Century, we should have structures and systems that function to respond to these issues. In this particular situation, people have suffered at large, and it is not only the people in Northern Kenya. It is also the people in Eastern Kenya. Tigania West is in Meru County, which is in the eastern region. We need to respond quickly so that people do not lose their lives. They have lost their livelihoods. How will those be recovered? We do not have mechanisms to return people to their previous living standards. We need to respond to this disaster. The government should wake up."
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