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    "id": 1113258,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1113258/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Chris Wamalwa",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. It is very embarrassing to see part of this country where people are losing lives and their livestock, and the Government is silent. Recently, His Excellency, the President, declared drought as a national disaster; but it does not just stop there. You must go to an extra gear of resource mobilisation and international appeals. During the days of the late President Moi, when such a matter happened, we used to see corporate companies and individuals coming in to give donations. This requires the President to go an extra mile in terms of resource mobilisation from the international communities, other countries, business community, corporate companies, parastatals and the like-minded people. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to quote what Mother Theresa said: “If you cannot feed 100 people, then just feed one.” We are calling upon our fellow Kenyans, wherever they are, to come and give a hand so that this matter of people dying can come to a stop. There is also a French poet who used to say, “a hungry stomach has no ears.” This stomach, if it goes on strike, it paralyses all the systems of the body. We are calling upon our colleagues because this is not just in North Eastern; even when you go to Eastern, because of climate change, we can see drought there."
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