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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kuti",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Kuti",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, you will appreciate that increased services will require more resources, be it in terms of personnel, vehicles or tools to work with like vaccines. I had indicated through a Ministerial Statement here that we need 15 million doses in order to create a buffer zone. That disease was discovered in 2006 in Lodwar and Turkana and it has been coming down south. The best way to control it is through vaccination and creation of a buffer zone. That will prevent the spread of the disease southwards. That requires resources. When we had our sector Ministers' meeting in Naivasha where five Ministries came together, I presented that disease as a major emergency. All the sector Ministers accepted that it should be declared an emergency. Unfortunately, at that time, there were changes at the ministerial level in the Ministry of Finance and that made us not move as fast as we had anticipated. We are now discussing and putting our heads together to contain that disease, which is actually a food security issue. As you know, sheep and goats to the pastoralists is like cash in the pockets, while cows are like savings accounts and camels fixed deposit. So, we are losing the cash at hand and that is why we are trying our best."
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