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    "id": 1251199,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Miano",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for East African Community, Arid and Semi-Arid Lands and Regional Development",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir and Hon. Members. I am glad to be here this morning to discuss matters that are important and pertain to our nation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the purpose of clarity and for the sake of providing general context to the Question by Sen. Chute of Marsabit County, allow me to capture very briefly the scope of the Ministry I serve as Cabinet Secretary and the Ministry of East Africa Community, ASALs and Regional Development. The Ministry has two state departments; namely, the State Department of East Africa Community and the State Department of ASALs and Regional Development. The matter in focus here today falls under the State Department of ASALs and Regional Development and more specifically in the general realm of the ASALs and special programmes. Mr. Speaker, Sir, currently the Kenya ASALs occupy a land mass approximated at 85 per cent. Some estimates places the percentage as high as 89 per cent. However, what is not in doubt is that even the most conservative estimates put the Kenya’s ASALs at 80 per cent of the entire territory at the very least. This by any standard is a huge land mass that can no longer be accorded casual attention with regard to social economic planning. In recent years driven by climate change, related reasons the areas regarded as semi-arid lands have joined the league of ASALs even if they were not ASALs before. At least 200 of Kenya’s 290 constituencies are now either arid or semi-arid lands. ASALs are home to about 40, 70 and 90 per cent of Kenya’s human population, livestock and wildlife, respectively."
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