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    "id": 369360,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/369360/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 11,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Motion and congratulate the Mover for bringing it. I wanted to say that it is not only in Isiolo where we have disasters, but all over the country. Sometimes it is difficult to predict where it will happen. We have had floods in Nyando, Tana River, Budalangi and in many other places. We have had fires but the only thing that I would like to caution, from the experience that we have now, is that when we come up with an institution like this one, we should not create an institution for bosses. That is where people want to incur lots of overhead costs in offices, instead of doing the work that is supposed to be done in the field. Sometimes back we used to have officers going round, some of them on bicycles and others on motorbikes, trying to show farmers what to do; their training include how to dig trenches to prevent erosion. These days such officers are not there. The Agricultural Officers we have in the districts and counties are in offices. All of them go to the offices at 8.00 a.m. and get out at 5.00 p.m. They do not do the work they are supposed to do. I am only hoping that we will create an institution that will work, go round monitoring what is supposed to be happening and come up with ways in which they can detect and control some of the disasters."
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