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    "id": 33666,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/33666/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Ongoro",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 125,
        "legal_name": "Elizabeth Ongoro Masha",
        "slug": "elizabeth-ongoro"
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I believe that this country has got enough policies to alleviate this perennial hunger. What we are lacking is the bridge between policy formulation and implementation; I do not know if it is a creation of a few, or it is by design or a coincidence that we have had such good policies over the years. If you visit any of our libraries, we are not lacking in policies; what is lacking is the implementation. I was watching news the other day and I saw a catholic missionary who is producing maize, oranges and bananas in an area, and he started with only about Kshs50,000. Now, if we are able to collect a lot of money, for example Kshs1 billion, and somebody has only started with Kshs50,000 and is feeding the surrounding community, do we need so much money just to buy grain to hand out to these people, or do we need maybe Kshs300 million to put in place an initiative that will produce a lasting solution? I really do not understand why about 50 years after Independence we do not have the kind of brains to design the kind of agricultural institutions in this country that we need. Are we not able to just take a department and officers to the North Eastern Province and allow them to put in place whatever they learnt in institutions and provide food? We are being reactionary as a Government; I think, as a member of the famous or infamous cabinet, according to Dr. Khawale, I do not want to be packaged and to carry a load of problems that were initiated long before I was born."
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