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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wangari",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was talking about the issue of drought in this country and the fact that 80 per cent of our land is arid or semi- arid. Yesterday, my own Governor of Nakuru was appealing to the national Government to supplement Nakuru people with relief food. It is that bad. It has stopped being a Marsabit or a Turkana issue, it is now a national issue. I will take a very short time because I am Member of the Committee on Lands and Natural Resources and we have ventilated on this matter. We also did public participation and made a Report to this House on this Bill. More importantly, we shall be moving amendments at the Committee Stage in terms of the issues that we felt need to be corrected in this Bill. The establishment of this NDMA, not under a legal notice, but under an Act of Parliament, will not only be good on paper. However, it will be very good for this country if this authority can be given adequate resources so that it can deal with recurrent drought in this country. We have been seeing these photographs in the news, of children from Baringo and Turkana going as far as tens of kilometres to look for water. We have 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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