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    "id": 1199937,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1199937/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": "For those who are not from pastoral areas, I will tell you that the problem with this kind of weather is that there are limited number of water points because the livestock will congregate in that place and eat all the pasture. So, the area itself becomes totally degraded and does not have any pasture. But because there is no water where the pasture is, and there is no pasture where the water is, animals have to travel for two or three days to look for pasture. Animals like cattle can only stay for three days without water. They then have to walk back to where the water was, and they die on the way. That is why you see the kind of stuff you are seeing right now. In the drought of 2010 and 2011, I engaged 59 water bowers in my constituency, using both the emergency component in the NG-CDF as well as some other powerful donors that came on board. In those days, that included the Millennium Villages Programme, which was partly in my constituency. Not only were we able to save the livestock in their entirety, but they were so strong that we could sell them in the market and fetch very good prices because we were taking water to where the pasture was. The animals stayed where there was pasture. It is not rocket science for the Government to adopt such strategies to try and protect the livestock because everybody eats meat. We had lunch today and there was meat. There is mutton, goat meat, beef and camel meat, which is extremely delicious. Why is it that we have never had a Government that seriously undertakes to make sure that this sector of the economy is protected in the same way that tea, coffee and all other agricultural crops are protected?"
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