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    "id": 1113272,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1113272/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ibrahim Abdi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13505,
        "legal_name": "Ahmed Abdisalan Ibrahim",
        "slug": "ahmed-abdisalan-ibrahim"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the President recently declared drought a national disaster. Our assumption was that resource mobilisation was supposed to be done, both at the national as well as at the international levels. Both the Government and other non-state actors such as the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) were supposed to mobilise resources, put them in the same basket and start immediate interventions. Currently, that has not been done. I thank Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani, who has done his best. He has made disbursements of Ksh2 billion to the Ministry of Devolution and Planning. At this juncture, we cannot accept some kind of bureaucracies. Now that the National Treasury has disbursed the money, it should go directly to the NDMA and urgent interventions must be started. On the aspect of who will coordinate the drought relief, that is a function of the NDMA and not the Office of the President. Currently, there is a lot of confusion. There is no central point for proper coordination of the different interventions to ensure that there is timely provision of services to the people. Currently, there are a number of schools that have been closed as a result of lack of water. That should not happen when we have adequate resources within the country."
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