{"id":317192,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/317192/?format=json","text_counter":382,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Affey","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":381,"legal_name":"Mohammed Abdi Affey","slug":"mohammed-affey"},"content":"Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. First of all, I want to congratulate and thank hon. Chachu. I want to say, on behalf of all the pastoralists in this country, that we are proud to have hon. Chachu as a Member of Parliament. I will be very surprised if the people of North Horr do not give him another opportunity to come to this House. Before this Bill, hon. Chachu had brought a Motion regarding the management of drought in this country and the House supported it. However, we have a Government that does not listen. They do not listen because they do not have ears, eyes and noses. This is a blocked Government. It is just a Government of farmers. It is a farming Government and not a pastoralists Government. This is a Bill that should have been brought by the Government if, truly, they care about the welfare of the pastoralists in this country, who form three-quarters of the population of this country. They even deceived us by giving us a Ministry called the Ministry of State for the Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Areas; they deceived three-quarters of the people of this country; this is political deception. This is a political deception; we have a Ministry that has no money and a Minister who comes from home, so that they can---"}