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    "speaker_name": "Samburu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Pauline Lenguris",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. This is the first time I am speaking in this House and I am so grateful. Secondly, let me thank the great people of Samburu for giving me this chance to represent them in this House. I am grateful to them for electing me as their Woman Representative. I started this journey long time ago - 15 years down the line - and I am so humbled for the trust they have bestowed upon me this time. I promise to serve them diligently, without bias and with all the respect that they deserve. Thirdly, let me thank the President of the Republic of Kenya, His Excellency Dr. William Samoei Ruto for the support he offered me during the campaign time. Let me also congratulate him on being elected the President of this country. He is also my party leader and I am so grateful for the support and the plans he has for this country. We know that we inherited a country which the economy has really gone down, the people are suffering and I understand from his agenda that he has good programmes that will put this country back to the line again. Programmes like the hustlers’ fund, housing and universal healthcare. Those programmes are going to support and help our people and hence, I believe that this honourable House will give him the support that he requires to implement them. They will be able to uplift the lives of our people. Fourthly, I come from a region that is currently hardest hit by the drought. I think you have all seen on the televisions and also heard from the Press statements that have been given by Members from that region - northern Kenya that we are faced by a very hard drought and our people are really suffering because of hunger. We have lost many livestock and many of our children are dropping out of school because the parents are not able to pay for the school fees. The schools are also not able to feed children. So, we are suffering both in the homes and our children are suffering back in the schools. The country is facing a severe drought and the threat is worsening each and every day. The household food security has really been affected and there has been minimal harvest in agro-pastoralist areas. Hon. Temporary Speaker, water has also become a major challenge for both human beings and livestock. The discharge levels have gone down. Most strategic boreholes have either broken down or the discharge levels have gone down. Conflicts over pasture have also erupted in most parts of Samburu County and, as the Member representing the county, I would request the Government to spearhead the support and interventions that would address the suffering that people are undergoing in that county and region. We are talking of Samburu, Marsabit, Isiolo, West Pokot and parts of Turkana. If the Government is not going to do something, we fear that lives are going to be lost. This week, I was in the county and we got reports of an old man who passed on due to hunger. So, I am here requesting the Government to fast-track the interventions. Even the development partners who are working in this country; if there is any kind of support they can give us, let them do so. We are requesting for any kind of support. Any other good Kenyan who is willing to support our people is highly welcome. On the school feeding programme, I support that it can be reinstated so that we can have retention of our children back in school, especially now that the parents are not even able to pay their school fees. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. Maybe I can donate some of the minutes to the Members who have not spoken."
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