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    "id": 391930,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/391930/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Motion by hon. Sunjeev Birdi. It is a very timely Motion and it should not just be urging the Government, but it should be more of making sure that this is implemented. Two weeks ago, I was in Geneva for the IPU Conference where disaster management was discussed and a case study was done by a Parliamentarian from Bangladesh which experiences a lot of floods. They have done a case study of people who live in flood prone areas and what came to my mind is hon. Namwamba’s constituency, Budalangi, which has been affected by perennial floods. I commend the Member for Budalangi for, at least, managing to save his people from all the floods and he is doing a great job. The IPU Conference discussion on disaster management resolved that we should mitigate factors which affect our people and flood water should not go to waste. We need to harvest that water. The best way to harvest that water is through the creation of multi-dams or dams along the river banks. With that, we will save a lot of lives. We could also use that water for irrigation. The Jubilee Government manifesto provides that they intend to irrigate 1 million acres of land in the next five years. If we have the dams, we will have done very much. Water is life. We had a policy which said that there should be water for everybody by 2010, which was then shifted to 2015. I hope that before the end of the term of this Jubilee Government, we will have water for all with these dams being created. Mount Kenya has lost a lot of its ice through global warming. It has reduced from nearly 10,000 to just above 5,000 now."
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