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    "id": 1199624,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ali Roba",
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    "content": "The situation in Mandera County where I represent, is not any better. Over 400,000 households are in dire need of nutrition and food support. An estimated 200,000 is experiencing severe food insecurity, while around 100,000 are likely to suffer from acute malnutrition by the end of 2022. The affected households lack basic necessities as their support has been wiped out in terms of livestock numbers. I urge the Government to immediately carry out coordinated multi-sectoral and timely humanitarian assistance by way of accelerated food security. This is the intervention that is needed in order to save lives. Secondly, I also request the operationalization of the National Drought Emergency Fund (NDEF) and implementation of blanket intervention where the situation can be tamed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I conclude, previously before we were declared a middle-income country, non-state actors would come in to help county governments to cope. After we were declared a middle-income country, non-state actors can only intervene after declaration of drought as a national emergency. Therefore, I would like to request our President, who I believe is extremely compassionate, to declare drought a national emergency as urgently as possible. From there, we can then synergize our efforts between the National Government, county governments and non-state actors."
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