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    "id": 114478,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/114478/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Lankas",
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        "legal_name": "Lankas ole Nkoidila",
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    "content": "individual, a whole community is engaged in corruption. We must mention names because they are known. So, this is an area we see the Government not working together. Each person is pulling in his or her own direction. There is a lot of protection and that way we cannot win the war against corruption. We are protecting people who have been rightly mentioned to engage in corruption. This is a challenge that this country is facing. Since we talked about not personalizing issues, there is desperation and hopelessness in the country. People do not know where to go. I do not know the message we are sending to those people who are out to save this country. We promised them a lot when this regime came to power, but what has set in now is a situation where Kenyans have lost hope. So, this is an area we need to address seriously. We need to give Kenyans hope that there is still life. There is still hope that we can still reclaim this country because it was on the brink of collapse. The issue of the environment was not mentioned in the Presidential Address to this House. I commend the Prime Minister for the action he has taken towards the conservation of our environment. It was not mentioned in the Presidential Address and yet it is an international issue. We are talking about climate change and global warming internationally. We have seen the effects of global warming in our country. We have experienced erratic weather patterns. This is an area I thought should have been addressed so that we could get Government policy on environmental conservation and related issues, such as climate change and global warming. All these things are happening all over the world and not only in Kenya. That brings us to the issue of disaster preparedness. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not think we have to wait until a disaster happens. This morning we read about what happened in Uganda. Many lives have been lost due to landslides. We need to have a policy, as a country, on disaster preparedness now that all these things are happening around us. We are not an island. We have read about earthquakes in Chile which have killed thousands of people. So, we need a policy so that we can address these problems whenever they occur. We should not wait for them to occur. When we talk about disaster preparedness, we mean that we should prepare ourselves in the event something happens. I want to revisit the issue of corruption. We have said that it cuts across all the sectors of our economy. Land is a factor of economy. However, corruption is rife in the land registries in an area like Narok. We have mentioned this before although the Minister for Lands has just walked out. This is an area that a lot of concerted effort is required to address this problem. Land registries in this country are plagued with a lot of corruption. It is not that we do not report these problems. It is only that little action is being taken. It is just last week when something happened in the Ministry of Lands with regard to land and corruption. It is really a problem in this country. So, we need to approach corruption from the point of view that it cuts across all the sectors of our economy. This is an area we should talk about. The President mentioned something about the growth in the tourism sector despite the drought we had gone through as a country. However, there is another sector which is equally important. That is the livestock sector which has no proper Government policy. The farmers who till land and grow crops threaten the livestock industry. Unless we come up with a policy so that the two can balance and co-exist---"
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