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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abdikadir Mohamed (",
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    "content": "Lagdera, ODM): Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the President’s Speech. First, I wish to thank my constituents of Lagdera for electing me to represent them in the 13th Parliament. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I also wish to congratulate you for having been elected the Deputy Speaker of this House. The President spoke, in paragraph 48, of the ongoing drought in northern Kenya and the entire country, saying that climate change was the cause. He said that the Government is going to distribute relief food. The President did not give this matter the seriousness it needs. In northern Kenya, already animals and people are dying. We do not want relief food only; we need other interventions. For example, the dying animals need feeds. The Government should also distribute animal feeds and do water trucking. We need many other things so as to protect the livelihoods of these people. While speaking on Universal Health Care (UHC), the President said that he will restructure the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). The NHIF has been over-restructured. I was an employee of the NHIF for the last 10 years; it has been over-restructured. It does not need to be restructured again. As it is now, it can handle the issues of the UHC. There is also the problem of insecurity in northern Kenya. Whenever there is drought, pastoralists always clash because of pasture. So, the Government should also address this particular issue this time when there is drought in northern Kenya. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I wish to thank you for giving me this opportunity. That is all."
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