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    "id": 1179837,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheptumo",
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        "legal_name": "Cheptumo William Kipkiror",
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    "content": "about deaths of people, livestock and a situation where there is no hope. This situation has definitely denied the great people of Turkana the enjoyment of their social, economic and even political rights as provided for in Article 43 of our Constitution. The basic livelihood of the people of Turkana and, indeed, the pastoral areas is livestock farming in terms of the food, for clothing, payment of fees for their children and every other livelihood situation, it is the livestock. When you talk of livestock dying in numbers, in thousands, it tells you that there is no hope in that society. If you see what has been happening of late, when you read newspapers, you watch what is happening on television and other electronic media, it is, indeed, a very desperate situation. I want to support this Motion and say that it is unfortunate that this is happening 59 years after we attained Independence in this country. By now, it is known that every year drought must occur in areas like Turkana and other parts of our country like Baringo, Samburu, Isiolo and Tana River. That is why over the years, some regional bodies like the Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA), Tana River Development Authority and the Rift Valley Water Services Board have been established to look into these issues but the funding of these institutions--- The philosophy behind these institutions was meant to address these challenges. We have the idea but there is no political will to fund those institutions so that they can address this situation. What we are doing is to wait for the situation to arise and then we call upon donors to give us resources and when the situation improves, we forget about it until the next it occurs. I have understood the manifesto of the Kenya Kwanza Government and there is a deliberate action as we move forward that this situation should be addressed in our various counties so that at no time again shall we have the Turkana people dying of hunger. If you read Article 43(1)(c) economic and social rights, every person has a right to be free from hunger and to have adequate food of acceptable quality. That is a right guaranteed by the Constitution and to be enforced by the government of the day. What we do today - my colleague has said it very well - is that we call upon donors to come forward, they give us food then we distribute. Let me assure you that that food being distributed is not adequate food of acceptable quality. Let alone the quality, even the quantity is not enough. This House should ask itself one question; we represent counties. What can we do as a House apart from raising Motions like the one raised by my colleague here? I have done this again in the National Assembly because Baringo County has a similar situation out of the six sub-counties, may be three of four are facing the same situation. Shall we be satisfied with this Motion every other day? I want to call upon the Kenya Kwanza Government led by His Excellency the President who understands the situation in Turkana in these pastoral areas that, this time round, we need to allocate enough resources to these ASL area through these regional"
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