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    "id": 142431,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Magerer",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 51,
        "legal_name": "Magerer Kiprono Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. Let me start by thanking Mr. Chachu for thinking on behalf of this Government which seems to be asleep. We have been able to see previously that this Government works only on emergencies. You know very well that our current President and the previous Presidents have been very quick in making declarations of national disasters; one of them being famine. I do not know what the significance of declaring a situation a national disaster helps. If this helps the situation, then the Government should declare arid lands and other semi-arid areas national disasters too. This will ensure that they are able to benefit from whatever this Government believes they can benefit from. I want to support the creation of the Drought Management Authority (DMA) as quickly as possible. The Motion talks about the drought being cyclic in nature. So, it is no longer an emergency. This Government is aware that during certain periods of time within our calendar years, we expect drought. Of utmost importance is this: What have they been able to do? We have agencies that have been able to help this Government to predict. It seems we are not able to make use of these agencies. Even animals have been able to indicate to us that there are certain weather patterns that will come over. We have birds that keep on flying around, and this tells us to expect this kind of a situation. The Government must be able to rise to the occasion and address this kind of situation well in advance. It is sad that every now and then, we see the Government seeking help to help its own people. A Government that always seeks help cannot help its people. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is sad that every now and then, this Government sits down to plan how to do what I know the hon. Minister knows; what is called in the world of NGOs “sustainable hunger”. Every year, we have to ensure that there is hunger for work to be there in the following year. This is a habit that must stop. The response, in terms of intervention, that we expect from the creation of the proposed Drought Management Authority is very important, in terms of rehabilitation of infrastructure like dams. If such infrastructure is there, then it should be rehabilitated. If it is not there, we should see the Government creating dams. In the Budget that was presented to this House a few weeks ago, the Government allocated more money for the rehabilitation of Nairobi River than the total amount that has been"
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