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    "id": 57726,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Mbarire",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Tourism",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance should realise that with climate change, they have to begin re-focusing their priorities. First, I think the biggest challenge we have during drought is water and food insecurity. We need to start seeing more money being pumped into this Ministry. I am happy that since the Minister got into office, the total allocation rose from Kshs9 billion to Kshs32.5 billion but I think we need much more. I hope that even the Budget Committee of this House will seriously focus into that. I want to support Mr. C. Kilonzo who said that if we could set aside Kshs10 billion and distribute it equally like we do it in the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to every constituency then get the rest allocated in terms of affirmative action to the more affected areas, I promise the Minister that she will have very few questions to answer in this House as far as water is concerned. I hope they can now re- focus the way they are distributing the money so that they can be able to deal with my issues in Runyenjes; Mrs. Noor can do the same and others can do the same. By doing that, we cannot go to the Minister talking about villages and yet she is dealing with the whole country. So, if you can give us some of that money equally, you will have very little problems with hon. Members."
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