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    "content": "In addition, investment in community-based resilience and drought preparedness projects has also been accelerated through the support of the national and county governments, as well as our development partners. The aim of those investments is to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable households by diversifying their livelihoods. As we respond to the current drought, we have commenced with the Livestock Off take Programme and initiated support to the affected citizens in a dignified manner through the cash transfer system, which is a cash transfer system of stipends to the affected families that replaces the dignity of having to queue for distribution of food portions. Hon. Speakers, the Government will continue to support all vulnerable households, and will endeavour to ensure that notwithstanding the severity of the winds of drought, no Kenyan will die of hunger. If dignity is freedom from want accompanied by freedom from fear, then I can confirm to the two Houses that we have done a lot to liberate our people from want. But I also want to underscore that more has been done to liberate our people from fear, yet very little has been spoken about it. Today, and with your indulgence, Hon. Speakers, I will go on record in this august House as having been the Commander-in-Chief that steered the implementation of the most consequential and ambitious transformation of our security sector. We did this because my administration appreciated that to have freedom from fear, our security sector has to be in good form. To give an example, the police to population ratio today is at its highest level ever as prescribed by the United Nations (UN) standard. Our police complement has received an additional 47,000 new recruits who have joined the service from the year 2013 to date. Similarly, over the last eight years, we have undertaken the most consequential and expansive modernisation of our military. In fact, the reform undertakings in the military are unparalleled in our nation‟s history. We have invested substantially in building new barracks and also in military manufacturing capabilities that have not only resulted in the spurring of previously dormant sectors, but also the creation of jobs for young people both directly and through ancillary services. For the first time in Kenya‟s history, we are producing our own light weapons and military uniforms, other equipment and supplies that were previously imported."
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