Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 135330,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/135330/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 138,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, preliminary assessments by the Kenya Food Security Steering Group show that large areas now face high risk of humanitarian emergency. Therefore, the immediate focus of the Government interventions is to save areas of high risks for humanitarian emergencies. The areas cover the following 11 districts: Marsabit, which means the larger Marsabit District; Samburu, Isiolo, Mwingi, Kitui, Tana River, Turkana, Laikipia, Mandera and Garissa. We will mount special operations in each of those districts. That will involve deployment of transport and other equipment of the armed forces, the National Youth Service and the Administration Police to deliver food, water and medicines. The deployment will be for over one to three months. Within that period, the immediate danger of starvation and other humanitarian disasters will be removed, food will be stored in sufficient quantities in convenient locations and adequate water sources will be secured. The Ministry of State for Special Programmes has already delivered food to the depots in each of those districts. It will be distributed to the affected areas as soon as the transport equipment arrives. The Ministry of Water and Irrigation is now procuring a large number of water tanks and bladders and will, together with the Ministry of State for Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Areas, drill, repair and maintain boreholes. President Kibaki and I will launch the special operations on Monday, 17th August, 2009, in Marsabit and Moyale districts."
}