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    "id": 531157,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill which I oppose because it has been a declared policy of this country and Government; one, that they are shrinking duplication of parastatals and other similar organizations to cut down wastage. Two, there exists an organization established according to the memorandum and objects by legal notice. The reason I oppose this Bill is that, one, there are very many institutions in this country that are capable of handling matters of drought. We have a programme called Arid Lands, which has been in existence for a long time, domiciled at the Office of the President, which has been responsible for dealing with arid and semi-arid lands commonly called (ASALs). Three, drought is not a permanent feature of our country. Drought comes at intervals when rains fail or when we get inadequate rains. In anticipation of an emergency, we cannot set up an elaborate parastatal with an office, furniture, secretaries, budgets and many other things. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is just setting up offices for squandering public funds. We have a devolved system in the country. As a country, we need the national Government to allocate enough resources and leave it to the county governments to manage exigencies of the weather such as this. It is actually an affront to devolution that after we have devolved and set up county governments, we want to have somebody sitting in Nairobi to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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