Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1179839,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1179839/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 245,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheptumo",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13591,
        "legal_name": "Cheptumo William Kipkiror",
        "slug": "cheptumo-william-kipkiror"
    },
    "content": "bodies so that we should be prepared in advance to ensure that there is enough water to irrigate our land. Some of the areas can be irrigated and we have food supplies. Therefore, it is important that this House rise above the issue of emotions. We have bodies like the National Drought Management Authority. Even the wording of the institution is clear; National Drought Management Authority. That body should be managing drought. How? Is it just by telling us the likely scenario of drought arising very soon? I think we have the capacity as a House to move the country and ensure that this is done. The other day, we had 23 counties with the situation like in Turkana prevailing. Today, I am told that they are 29 and moving to 30. Almost more than a half of our country is exposed. I would like to thank my colleague for this Motion and I would like to say to the country now that a part from Turkana where the situation is so desperate the way we have read, it is happening in other counties including your county of Wajir, Garissa, Mandera, Baringo, Isiolo, Taita Taveta, Lamu and other areas. As a country and as a people, we must go for affirmative action so that we have a permanent solution to this situation. We have now closed the schools, I do not know what is going to happen in January when our children go back to school in Turkana. I want to call upon the government noting that the old livelihood for these areas is livestock and they are now dead."
}