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    "id": 131480,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Gaichuhie",
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        "legal_name": "Nelson Ributhi Gaichuhie",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of State for Special Programmes is supposed to have the poverty eradication programme but due to lack of funds, they are only doing all they can with the little funds that they have. So, I urge the Ministry of Finance to consider funding the Ministry of Special Programmes. Floods have become a problem. We know that River Nzoia busts its banks now and then. We have been told by the Meteorological Department that we may have ElNino rains soon. So, I urge the Ministry of State for Special Programmes to also set aside funds so that in case of floods, Budalang’i is not affected so much. They should have something as a stop-gap measure. I urge the Treasury to consider giving them special funds like the Civil Contingency Fund should be under the Ministry of Special Programmes. National food security is also another issue. We know our Strategic Grain Reserves are now at the point of no return because we have droughts and the Ministry of Special Programmes has really supported us every other month with relief food. If they are not well-funded, the Kshs1.2 billion cannot be enough to even have our Strategic Grain Reserve taken back to the levels that is it supposed to be. So, I urge them to continue urging the Ministry of Finance, through Parliament to be given more funds to see to it that we are able to get relief food and also that the Strategic Grain Reserves are maintained to levels that will ensure that we have food security in this country. Regarding the resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), I am grateful that they want to put up 19,000 houses but I am hoping that this time, they are going to put up houses that are going to settle people because what we have seen in the past is just a ten-by-ten room which cannot even hold a family. You know so many people were displaced and the Ministry of Finance also has a reserve for the resettlement of IDPs. It"
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