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    "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": "It is a fact that we cannot have enough food because of the limited resources and a tight fiscal space. So, based on the resources that are available and the food that we procure, we try to balance and just do the best that we can with what is available. We are cognizant that cash transfers have less logistics. They do not have transport costs. Relief food distribution is a whole operation, in terms of food, vehicles, logistics, records and all that. Cash transfers would be the way to go. Currently, we do both, but cash transfers is at a smaller scale. The programmes that are in place, some of them supported by our development partners, we are looking at this to see how we can spread this to more counties than what we have currently, so that we have more cash transfers in future and the relief food becomes less, and to only reach the really needy or pockets that deserve the actual food rather than the cash transfer. Therefore, we are receiving support from our development partners and also working together on this strategy of hunger safety-net and cash transfers. I will call it again, work in progress. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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