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    "id": 1202312,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1202312/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hussein Weytan",
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    "content": "are poorly paid to the tune of Kshs10,000. You may not know the difference between KPR and NPR but people from the borders like Turkana know them very well. The KPRs are locally employed by the counties and NPRs are employed by the national Government. That is our national security. If you investigate and get to know the amount of money that is paid to those people, you will be shocked. Those people normally lose their lives following these terror activities. Just recently, we lost eight of our gallant KPRs without compensation despite earning about Kshs10,000. Their families are now living in abject poverty. I want to appeal to the Government to take this matter very seriously and pay these people at least the level of the Kenya Police and other forces so that they can be motivated and do their work. They understand all the routes and the area very well and can do better than the other forces only if they are paid very well. In Mandera, we lack basic needs including food, shelter and clothing. Other than a few of the people who belong to the middle class, and a few others who have been very successful in business, the majority of the people live in abject poverty. They live through the relief food and cash transfers that are now being given by the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). We really thank the World Food Programme and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for helping our people through cash transfers and water trucking. We have a problem of shelter because during the rainy seasons and even other times, our people live in huts or hoorios, as we call them. We want the Government to help us build low-cost houses for these people. The Housing Ministry concentrate on the city and other high range areas and not constituencies. We want to translate this to the local people so that our people can now graduate from the huts to permanent buildings. The other issue is water. Our people normally take water from boreholes – water that is salty and untreated. This has led to so many of them having cancer. The salty water may not be fit for human consumption. However, they have to use it because they have no otherwise. They have no other way to live other than using that salty water. We want the Government to use experts to make sure that fresh water is provided for the people of Mandera East and the entire Mandera County. Unemployment is also extremely high in Mandera East Constituency and Mandera County in general. Other than a few employment opportunities provided by the county government and a few in the national Government, most graduates live in abject poverty. We want the Government to give us opportunities and provide employment for our people. Somalis, who are normally the majority in Mandera, are very aggressive in business. If you provide funds, they can easily extend, start businesses and even provide employment opportunities for other Kenyans, which they are already doing. A few of them are already doing so, because other Kenyans from down-Kenya are now moving to Mandera to seek employment. We expect the Government to provide interest-free loans to the people of Mandera. I cannot take money with even less than 0.00 per cent interest because of my religion. I expect the Government to provide interest-free loans. I also request Parliament to consider providing interest-free mortgages for parliamentarians, because I cannot take a mortgage right now as other Members are doing because of my religion. We have the Dawa River in Mandera, yet our people are crying due to lack of water. Areas that are a bit far from the river do not have water. If the Government can pump in some money and..."
}