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    "id": 144084,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/144084/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 114,
        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. While I support this Motion, I would like once again to thank the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for a well-done Budget. However, the fear of many Kenyans and most Members of this House is whether the Budget will be implemented as it was read. I would like to inform the Deputy Prime Minister for Finance Finance and Minister of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 because they must have had something in common in the Budget that was read, including the implementation that was put to the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) framework, was a bit vague. That is why most Members are still concerned and confused whether these monies will be challenged to the individual CDF accounts or through the Ministerial dockets that we already have. Either way, I would like to say that this is the time the Minister for Finance should hold a kamukunji for the Ministers and their respective officers and tell them how this money would be used, so that people at the grassroots would benefit. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance should ensure that the Budget proposals are implemented. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, having said that, I would like to comment about the drought situation that has been raised by most hon. Members. It is not a secret that we have a serious drought that has far reaching implications when it comes to the farming and livestock keeping communities. It is also not a secret that 80 per cent of the national game parks and reserves fall under the Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASALs). The reserves border pastoralists. However, it is amusing that the Ministry of Wildlife and Forestry operates within a Constitution that values wildlife more than the citizens of this country. It is just the other day when we had choppers, Land Cruisers and a group of wildlife officers chasing livestock in Tsavo West and Tsavo East and yet this is the livelihood of Kenyans who are now at the mercy of seeking to know when the rains will come. We have sought for a Ministerial Statement here but the Ministry does not seem to care. Yesterday, the same Ministry went on an operation in Kora National Park. Forty families including women and children were ransacked, put in a lorry and ferried to Maua Police Station where they spent a night. The victims who did not know where to go were only released this morning. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are many officers out there who are doing this country a great service. I thank and recognise the effort of the District Commissioner, Tana River District, a Mr. Wanyama and the Red Cross Society for urgently responding to those people who were shocked, troubled and traumatised by the very people who are supposed to safeguard wildlife in their interest. Because I know that many hon. Members would like to contribute to this Motion, I would like to say that a lady who was in labour passed away just because of the brutality and insensitiveness of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officials. They ransacked and whisked away the midwives who were supposed to assist that Kenyan. She passed away because the KWS values hyenas, lions, foxes and snakes more than the citizens of this nation. I urge the Ministry concerned to have a human heart. The KWS"
}