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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chute",
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        "legal_name": "Chute Mohamed Said",
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    "content": "We have drought, banditry attacks, corruption and drug abuse. These are the four major problems that we have in Marsabit County. The same thing applies to Turkana County. I am a United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Senator and we cry to our President almost every day. I do not know if he is not listening to us or he is ignoring us. Our people are dying and we are asking him to intervene as soon as possible. Yesterday, a lady, Mama Wato, called me from Moyale and told me; “I had over 100 cows, they are all gone. I now have only 16 left. Please, send me your lorry to ferry these cows from here to Isiolo.” I am now organising a lorry for her. Out of 100 herd of cattle, the lady has only 16 now. She has lost almost everything. She does not have a husband and no children. I really felt sorry for her. This is the situation we are in. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, two weeks from today, if we do not get enough rains to help our people, it is going to be a disaster. It will be unmanageable. I will be honest with you. As i speak, our people are in Ethiopia. Yesterday, they called me from a place called Magado in Southern Ethiopia. They told me that animals from Turbi, Bubisa, Dida Galgalu and Adhuhuri are in Ethiopia. They do not have food and security. We had to talk to Ethiopian authorities to help our people stay there for a few weeks until we get rains, hopefully soon. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I now have two issues. I am almost finishing. The other problem we have is inbreeding. Our animals are having problems because we have never brought bulls from outside Marsabit County. That is a big problem. We get this kind of drought situations yet the immunity of our cows are very low. I want to thank a few people and NGOs who are contributing a lot to our people in Marsabit. That is National Drought Management Authority (NDMA), Pastoralist Community Initiative and Development Assistance (PACIDA), Caritas Internationalis, Northern Water Services Board (NWSB), National Water Harvesting, Ewaso Ng’iro North Development Authority (ENNDA), Strategies for Northern Development (SND), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and not forgetting the Giant Group of Company. I would also want to thank Mr. Mukesh who is a donor, Mombasa Cement Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Blue Nile Wire Products CEO, Mr. Rao. Finally, I request our dear President to help us by declaring this a national disaster so that the NGOs can divert the funds meant for development to a disaster-managing fund. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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