{"id":190371,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/190371/?format=json","text_counter":87,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Ndambuki","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":191,"legal_name":"Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki","slug":"gideon-ndambuki"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member wants me to take northern Kenya population and ASALs seriously next year. I do not know! I am not the Minister for Finance! But the only thing I could say is that the Government has already created the Ministry of Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands. We have also allocated quite a substantial amount of money to the North Eastern districts to cater for harvesting of water and, also, to promote the production of drought-tolerant traditional foods. That is going to take care of all ASALs."}