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    "speaker_name": "Ijara, NAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdi Ali Abdi",
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    "content": "Member of Parliament. I am humbled by their firm faith and belief in my ability to represent them in the august House. I am honoured to serve them as their Member of Parliament. I hope I can repay the faith they have placed in me. I also take this opportunity to congratulate our President and his deputy for their election. I also take this opportunity to congratulate the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Deputy Speaker, in absentia, for their election. I also take this opportunity to congratulate you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for being appointed to the Speaker’s Panel of the Assembly. As you are aware, Ijara is located 100 kilometres away from Lamu and 180 kilometres away from Garissa. It is the home of the Hirola. It is the only place where you will find the Hirola in Kenya. Ijara has many problems. I may not have time to explain all of them in detail, but I will focus on a few key issues. There is the issue of roads. We do not have any road network connection in Ijara. The same applies to electricity. The only place where there is electricity is at the constituency headquarters in Masalani. Other parts of Ijara have no electricity. The other issue is insecurity, as we border Somalia. One of my key agenda is to make sure that I deliver, inshallah, and with the help of God, address all these issues. I look forward to opening a border point in Hulugho, which will ease movement of goods and services and, at the same time, improve on the insecurity that we have there. The other issue that I want to push is the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) project. LAPSSET is a flagship project. It is a mega project that will open up the market for Ijara and the entire northern Kenya. I request the Executive to make sure that LAPSSET is implemented to the letter. That is because it will open up opportunities both internally and externally. The other thing that I am looking forward to is enhancing food security. Ijara is fertile and fit for seasonal farming with the right seedlings and fertilisers. The other thing that I look forward to addressing is education. The removal of affirmative action by the previous Government led to poor performance of education in northern Kenya. I appeal to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to reintroduce affirmative action, which will increase the student-teacher ratio. Our country is facing a historical drought with some regions, including my own constituency, not receiving any signs of rainfall for the last four seasons. The drought situation in my constituency is currently at an alarming stage and is the worst that has ever been witnessed. The prolonged drought has affected livestock and deteriorated the food situation. The situation is so bad that last month, a very sad incident happened in my constituency after four hyenas attacked six of my constituents in Sagar and Warsame, in a case of human-wildlife conflict. Currently, buffalos are dying in mud at a dry water pan in my constituency. Due to this failure of rainfall, the condition of our livestock is poor. Water pans have dried up. Livestock rely on boreholes, which frequently break down. Livestock do not fetch any prices and there is no milk available. I also take this opportunity to support the Presidential Speech. I thank His Excellency the President and the national Government for the few small interventions of marshalling resources and releasing enough consignments to 3.5 million people. On behalf of my constituency, I still appeal for more support in upscaling this relief food to more pastoralists to enhance the emergence of cash transfers, animal feeds and provision of water for both humans and livestock. Fellow Hon. Members, while distribution of relief food is important at this moment in time, it is our mandate, as the 13th Parliament, to engage relevant stakeholders in finding, not only urgent measures to protect our people and their livelihoods from the effects of the devastating drought and climate change, but also to ensure that we provide sustainable and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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