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    "id": 36655,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the amendment. I have heard us give an erroneous perception that food is not an important issue. We have seen Kenyans die of hunger and I do not know which dead Kenyan needs security. We do not need security in our graves. We need to be alive before we are given security. This is an issue of immediate survival versus future survival. I do not need to survive in future if I cannot survive today. The way life is coined is that you live today before you live in future. The way you live today is that you must have food and water. What we are asking is that the Budget needs to acknowledge the fact that there are many Kenyans who are dying. That is why the Prime Minister was allocated special time today to talk about the issue of food security. We have discussed that matter more than once in this House and a Committee in that regard has even been set up. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are many revolutions that are going on all over the world and there are many countries where revolutions have been done because of food. A hungry man is an angry man. We must listen to Kenyans who are hungry. What we are saying is that we are"
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