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    "id": 32721,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support this Motion and to congratulate Dr. Otichilo for bringing this Motion. This Motion is important arising from what has just happened in this country where we are raising money to save Kenyans who are affected by severe drought. I think we are very insensitive to predicaments as a Government. This is the reason why these kind of Motions come to the House. Somebody said the other day that somebody must have been sleeping on the job and that is why Kenyans are dying and yet we are doing nothing. Even now, we are not even doing the right thing. We are not going to be feeding these people every time there is drought by taking food there. If you look at some of the areas like in Turkana, you will find that in one place, people are dying and a few kilometers away, it is green. This means that we can transform this country into a food sufficient country. We can even export food. If you look at countries like Israel and Egypt, they have very little arable land. Egyptians live in very few towns which have been taken care of by the Government. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Motion is long overdue. The issues that have been raised here, Ministers hitting right and left here, are just because we did not do it the right way. Why can the Government not initiate action on this? The former Inter-Ministerial Committee can deal with this. We have Ministers here and I am happy the Minister for Water and Irrigation is here listening to this because a number of times we raise these issues and the Ministers are not here to listen. I am very happy that the Minister is here and she is going to take responsibility. This is a matter that the Minister should take up at the Cabinet level instead of coming to complain here that some people travelled. Ministers are free to travel. It is also good public relation for the Government, but what is its objective? If it is just a matter of people taking allowances to travel to other countries to do their own businesses, then I do not think that, that should be acceptable."
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