{"id":119474,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/119474/?format=json","text_counter":290,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Affey","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":381,"legal_name":"Mohammed Abdi Affey","slug":"mohammed-affey"},"content":"Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to seek a Ministerial Statement from the Minister for Agriculture. Considering that pastoralists have suffered three years of continuous drought; aware that as a result some of the pastoralists have taken loans from the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) and thereby used their ranches as security or collateral to secure these loans; given that this prolonged drought has continued to affect the pastoralists’ ability to service the loans; aware that Kenyans engaged in other forms of"}