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    "id": 1236982,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1236982/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musalia Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Cabinet Secretary",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 84,
        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
        "slug": "musalia-mudavadi"
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    "content": "food assistance, livestock feeds, and trucking of water facilities. Indeed, we need to acknowledge and commend the county governments for their role in battling the drought situation. Hon. Speaker, we also estimate that development partners, the United Nation agencies, Non-Governmental Organisations, and other non-state actors have also plugged in approximately Ksh48 billion to support drought relief across the counties that have been affected. Again, Hon. Speaker, I will table the details rather than belabour the point to the House by reading one after the other. There is also the private sector-led National Steering Committee on Drought Response. This particular committee has distributed about 163,000 food hampers worth more than Ksh450 million to approximately 978,000 Kenyans under the initiative dubbed Wakenya Tulindane Initiative. Other steps the Government has taken to ensure relief supplies reach as many people as possible include collaboration with county governments and development partners to scale up relief and humanitarian responses, to save lives, alleviate suffering, and bring dignity to the affected parties. We want to enhance coordination of this drought response efforts to ensure relief supplies reach as many people as possible in the last mile. We are also working to make sure that peace and security is maintained because it is necessary that for these efforts to succeed, we must support communities in promotion of peace and ensuring security. We are going to continue putting emphasis on women empowerment across the board and on youth education and empowerment. We are going to mitigate the effects of climate change across the country. It is also important to note that the President announced a very ambitious programme. That in the next 10 years we can turn around a lot of the effects of drought if we can successfully plant 15 billion trees. That way, we will start reversing the impact of climate change and the drought that comes with it. I think I will stop there."
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