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    "content": "saying that the drought situation is unmanageable and yet we are the ones who are not manageable. The leadership of this country has to think about managing our affairs. We should manage our people in a way they will appreciate those who are in Government. We keep on talking about drought management interventions. We keep on talking about these interventions. That shows that we know that we will experience drought at some point. Why do we employ the police force? Why do we also employ doctors? We do so, because we know people will get sick and that others will commit crime. That is why we employ all these people. Why can we not do the same thing to ensure that we have plans to tackle the impending drought? Creating institutions and giving them all the power does not change the situation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the problem in this country is that anybody can wake up in the morning and think about creating an institution where he can get employment. That is the point we are at. People are hunting for employment while others are dying and suffering. The issues I have talked about affect areas where even our own policemen and women cannot dare to go fight. These people have armed themselves to the teeth with sophisticated arms. They are ready to die. Any man would prefer to die than live hungry. That is a very serious matter that we must consider when we are standing here. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I associate drought with many other problems. You can give these people something like - create dams. However, this situation can also get out of hand and become a security issues. Therefore, any person suggesting that this Bill is not necessary or appropriate, just like my friend from Mandera, I will say is a person who does not belong to this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is important to create an authority like this one. However, how many authorities do we have in this country? We have very many authorities. In fact, if someone was to sit down and work out the amount of money spent through authorities and balances the expenditure and what it does, you would be surprised. This is a group of well to do people who are well educated, businessmen who are very intelligent. Their work is nothing, but to enjoy the sweat of the poorest person in this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we know that there will be a lot of rain in the next one week or two. Where is our level of preparedness? We have created about 1,000 dams in this country. We are talking about spending money to grow crops in about 1,000,000 acres. This will be a dungeon of money eating. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you want that money to be spent wisely, pass it on to the ordinary small farmers and manage them like we used to do with GMR. However, when you say you can start an institution of one million acres and you are going to do “a,” “b,” “clause” and “d” and you have failed to do even 50 acres, I think we are deceiving ourselves. Time has come when we must now be clear and open. Let us say what we do not know and what we do not know, we must know. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what is fertilizer? We cannot effectively distribute fertilizer that we just imported. We know the number of bags that of our farmers need and yet we cannot distribute it. I plead with the Senate Majority Leader and the Government that it is not because we do not have law and that is why we are where we are. However, it is because we are not ready with priorities, especially those that do not 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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