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    "id": 1353601,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1353601/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": "Right now, the whole of North Eastern is cut off because of the rains. We only had one tarmac road of 100 miles. That is it. Even that one is now broken down. A section of it has been washed away. People in Garissa cannot get food because a big section of the road from Nairobi to Garissa has been washed away. The rest of the country is now out there. I heard none other than our own Deputy President saying, ‘let the county governments deal with the floods’. Floods? For God’s sake. When things like typhoons, hurricanes, floods and El Nino happen in the States, it is not left to California or Texas or Florida to deal with, even if the economy of Florida is probably 20 times the economy of Kenya. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from Washington DC is the one which goes in there. There is nothing these governors who have got a paltry sum of money where 70 or 80 per cent goes into recurrent expenditure can do in terms of mitigating the effects of El Nino . The Central Government must walk in with all its assets, take food to the people, take helicopters, mobilise the military, call it a national disaster and then call for the international community to come and assist us. You wonder sometimes whether the leadership in this place considers all Kenyans to be Kenyans who should be treated equally and we should do everything that needs to be done for them. All the coastal boys that go and join Al Shabaab, do so because of grievances because they feel the Government has not taken care of them. They do not have land, they do not have the investments of government in there. Their mainstay of the economic sector has not been promoted the same way other sectors like tea, coffee, pyrethrum and flower sectors have been promoted. The Government has put in massive resources in those sectors. You people are young. I remember how much money used to be put into it. I remember one time we pushed for the cancellation of the coffee debts and we ended getting Ksh5.3 billion written off to support our farmers. I am still a member of the coffee and tea caucus here and we want to give the right prices to our own coffee farmers and develop the coffee sector. For God’s sake, let us develop the marine sector for the coastal people and let us start right now. This is a very small thing. This Bill is asking for the least but we need to do much The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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