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    "id": 182293,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/182293/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Shaban",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Special Programmes",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": " I am sorry, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I was held up in a meeting. However, I beg to reply. (a) I am not aware that the number of beneficiaries of relief food in Turkana area has been reduced. What I know is that it has been increased. (b) Due to food shortages in the larger Turkana area, my Ministry has scaled up its relief programme to this area. The beneficiaries in February were 160,000, but we have scaled them up to 225,000. In addition, we are also giving relief food to 15,000 beneficiaries - children and lactating mothers who are on supplementary diet and also 78,000 primary school pupils on the School Feeding Programme. A total of 328,000 persons are on the EMOP Programme and we also have the general food distribution by the Government. The total amount of food distributed to the area through EMOP is 3,175 metric tonnes valued at Kshs208,692,750, that is, approximately Kshs209 million monthly. Besides that, my Ministry has distributed to the area assorted food valued at Kshs55.6 million from July to September. The current October food allocation to each of the three districts is 2,000, 90-kilogrammes bags of maize, 600, 90-kilogrammes bags of beans and 600, 50- kilogrammes bags of rice; all valued at Kshs28.9 million. (c) The World Food Programme has entered into an agreement with the lead agencies in all the 17 districts currently under the EMOP. I wish to table the lists."
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