{"id":240797,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/240797/?format=json","text_counter":267,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":193,"legal_name":"Peter Anyang' Nyong'o","slug":"peter-nyongo"},"content":"Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I I would like to see this Bill come into being because, then, we shall have a watchdog for monitoring the use of famine relief, which as I said, is something that I speak about with a heavy tongue. Forty-three years after Independence, Kenya should not be having famine relief. I remember there was only one time for famine in Kenya when I was growing up. In Luoland, there was some famine before World War II, before I was born. That is the famine we used to talk about in Luoland. The whole of my time, up to high school and after I went to Makerere, I never saw famine relief in Nyanza. Those were colonial times. But ever since I started working, and as an adult, the independent Government sings about famine relief like they used to sing about \" KANU yajenga nchi \". This is a terrible shame!"}