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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important Motion. I want to support the Minister and congratulate him for his bright vision and clear demonstration of his performance. Thank you for what you have done. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a very important Vote. When the founding fathers of our nation founded this very important nation, they vowed to fight three issues: Disease, hunger and ignorance. But 45 years down the line, we are still crying over hunger! We are a hungry nation! An hungry nation cannot be a stable nation! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Ministry is a very important one. It is a key Ministry and it is the only one that can give us food on our tables. It is very hurting to see millions of Kenyans queuing for food aid. It is unfortunate that our country is on food aid and many of our people, while queuing for that food aid, fight over the meagre food rations that they get in terms of donations! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is also hurting to see thousands of children who leave their homes early in the morning on an empty stomach and go to school. Even when they get back in the evening, they do not know whether they will get food on their tables. It is really hurting to see pregnant mothers who are malnourished and unable to continue with their pregnancies. They lose their babies because of lack of food! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is why I want to contribute to this Vote. We are not serious in realising the visions and targets that we have; Vision 2030 and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), if we cannot empower this Ministry and give it adequate resources. If we are a signatory to all the treaties--- If we are a signatory to the MDGs, how can we achieve them if we cannot give enough resources to this key Ministry? If we gave all the resources to this key Ministry, it could, in turn, translate them into adequate food for this nation. When we get adequate resources and food for this country, this country will be a healthy nation and we will not even require to get medicine. October 29, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3149 That is because food will be our prevention! It will give us the strength and the capacity. It will help us to realise a working nation! We cannot be a working nation when everybody is hungry; when everybody, at the end of the day, is kneeling down for food; when we have 50 per cent or 70 per cent of our people living below the poverty line! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must look into ways of giving this Ministry 10 per cent of our national Budget!"
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