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    "id": 178559,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Mbarire",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Tourism",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. I want to begin by saying that, yes, I am a member of the Grand Coalition Government. However, I do not think we are saying anything new today. There is nothing we have not said about hunger. This is not the first time Kenyans are starving. We come here to talk as if it is happening for the first time. It is as if the price of commodities, including fertilizer, are high for the first time. We have got to be very honest with ourselves. In the Ninth Parliament, and I was here, we had a Motion of Adjournment to discuss this very same issue. We discussed the matter just like today - passionately. But what have we done about it? Next year, we will do it again. The reason being that we have refused to think outside the box. It is \"We\" versus \"Them\"; that is, Government versus Back Benchers. All of us have a moral responsibility to make this our issue and not a Government issue. We have to point out where the weaknesses are. Even if we stand here and point fingers at the Government, again, next year, if you will be lucky to come back, you will point fingers at the Government. So, let us be honest with ourselves. Each one of us has a responsibility to sit and think. How many of us today think of climate change and its effects on our people? Climate change is going to affect Sub-saharan Africa more than any other part of this world. What are we doing? We keep saying that \"Our people cannot leave Mau!\" And we are talking about climate change, people! So, I am telling you, \"You have not seen nothing yet.\" Let us rise above politics and think about the future of this country. Let us not always see things from a political angle. There are Members of Parliament here who have no clue what climate change means for our people. Our people are going to starve. The rains will either come to extreme and destroy what is in our farms or there will be no rains at all. What are we doing about it? We come here and talk very kali . So, what? We then leave the battle to one Minister for Agriculture. He cannot make it on his own. Let us support him. He needs more money for the Ministry of Agriculture. Let us talk matters of climate change without putting politics in them. I am telling you, today, we are here talking about hunger and starvation, but for as long as we are not ready to face the challenges of climate change squarely, and for as long we are not ready to sit down and talk about the Mau Forest and stop our country from facing perpetual hunger, we shall not have helped ourselves. So, let us be honest with ourselves and face facts as they are. Playing to the galleries will not help any of us. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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