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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dekow Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Firstly, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute. I also thank the Mover of the Motion of Adjournment on a Matter of Urgent National Importance. As my colleagues have said, the region is in dire situation. We have more than El Nino . We have not experienced what we are experiencing for a very long time. In our lifetime, we have never seen the situation we are in. We have reached a situation where we are inheriting those very funny names of big disasters like hurricane or cyclones in our region. It is completely submerged. The Government was forewarned. We knew all these things would come but they took them for granted. We have been talking about this situation at press conferences and public rallies, urging the Government to declare this El Nino a national disaster. There seems to be some laxity or fear. They think that it will be shameful to declare it a national disaster. Whichever name they use, they must know that we have a problem that needs urgent Government interventions. The county governments are unable to sufficiently intervene in emergencies of this magnitude. We need the national Government to come in. It looks like they wake up every morning to tell us that we are not yet suffering; that we are not yet there. We need to suffer more so that they can come in. We need the Government’s intervention. I am speaking from the Floor of this House directly to the President of this country, wherever he is. When he comes back from outside the country, we need him to land at Wajir International Airport and establish a command centre to coordinate the disaster mitigation measures in that area. We no longer trust any other Government official to tell us anything. We have met many cabinet secretaries and principal secretaries on the same issue. They cannot move or airlift even one truck of food from here to the affected areas. People are suffering. Homes are flooded. There is no one who is living in his house today in the whole region. I have a 30-km river line along my constituency and all the farms are destroyed. People are watching the destruction of their lifetime investment, but there is no Government to talk about it. Displaced people are living in schools in the county. Students are unable to do examinations because schools are occupied by displaced people. Nothing is coming from the national Government or the county government to help those people. We have said many things on the Floor of this House. It is unfortunate because the leaders of this House do not take these issues seriously. They were here before this Motion came before the House, but they left us. Their only intention is to whip us to come and support Government Bills and other business. However, when we have a problem in our regions and we need them most to speak on our behalf, they disappear from the House."
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