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    "id": 1113271,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1113271/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ibrahim Abdi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Abdisalan Ibrahim",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also want to add my voice to this Motion. The performance of the short rains and long rains in 2021 was poor across the ASAL areas. There was late onset of the rains; it was below average and it was poorly distributed both in time and space. As a result, this is one of the worst droughts we have ever seen. About 12 counties are at an alarming stage as we speak. Access to water by these counties have been extremely poor, both in the household and livestock as well. You will find that trekking distances of the livestock to watering points have increased, and livestock mortality rates have highly increased. Vegetation is very low in most of the areas in these 12 counties, and prices for commodities like maize have gone high. There are irreversible coping mechanisms that have been adopted by most of these pastoralists because the food is shared by both livestock and humans, and as a result, we have had negative coping mechanism. Due to the body deterioration of livestock, livestock prices have drastically reduced. I can assure you that in most of these areas, malnourishment levels are extremely high just because pastoralists depend on milk, and milk production has now reduced drastically. As a result of this deterioration of the milk production, the malnutritional level is extremely high."
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