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    "id": 20408,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/20408/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Ngilu",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Water and Irrigation",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 111,
        "legal_name": "Charity Kaluki Ngilu",
        "slug": "charity-ngilu"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we go on recess, unfortunately some of us are facing some extreme difficulties and challenges when we go to our constituencies. In ASAL areas, people are going through hard times because of acute shortage of food, famine and some areas lack of water. I think time has come for us, as a country, to really address the issue of food shortage squarely. Today and tomorrow, we have this very important and big conference taking place in Gigiri, with the UN and all the donors meeting here, what we are calling the Horn of Africa Conference, to address food security. But, surely, it looks like we are trying to hold conference and talk about problems that affect our people as if we do not know what we need to do to ensure that we can now put this problem of food out of our way once and for all. If Zimbambwe, a country that has not known good governance for all the years, today is able to feed its own people, how come we, Kenyans, cannot feed our own people? Zambia and Malawi are able to feed their own people, yet we are not able to feed our own people. Everyday, you would see us talk about water. We say Kenya is a water scarce country, and for that reason, we are unable to feed our people."
}