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    "id": 232771,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M.Y. Haji",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Mohammed Haji",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while I congratulate hon. Munyes, the Minister of State for Special Programmes and his Assistant Minister, hon. Wario, for finding time to fly to various places including, Ijara District, to assess the situation, it would appear like every other time we are faced with either droughts or floods the Government does not learn lessons from past experiences by being ready to face the calamities. The hon. Assistant Minister will agree with me that in Hulugho, which is in Ijara District near the Somali border, for the last three months the people there have not seen food supplies. They do not have sugar, tea or maize meal. The only thing that they have is milk from their cows. Definitely, this is not a healthy situation for the country. Besides, school girls going to school in Ijara cannot go home now, and for the last two months, telephones have not been working at the district headquarters in Ijara because they depend on solar energy. When it rains, you do not get solar energy. There is no passable road at all in the area. I hope that the Assistant Minister will hasten to arrange for food and drugs to be November 28, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3965 dropped by helicopters so that we do not have people dying because of malaria and hunger."
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