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    "id": 620739,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to also speak to this amendment and a well thought out idea. As you are aware, dynamics in Kenya are changing every day. Climate change is occurring in every part of the country. There are some regions which initially were considered as “bathroom” such as Kisii, but now things are different because of climatic changes all over the world. When this Committee, in their wisdom, thought that the setting up of an office should reflect the needs and the changes on the ground, I think they were prophetic because they must have looked at the future and figured out there would be need at some point to have even this office located somewhere in Kisii notwithstanding the historical challenges and benefits that the community has had. As I speak now, we are considered a water needy county because of the challenges of climate changes, lifestyle and psycho-social issues which have affected water and other resources that the community has taken for granted, for lack of a better word, in the past. Therefore, having this office located in such places will enable us to look for ways of feeding the needy parts of Kenya. We should also go out of our way to mitigate and ensure that we reduce the needy parts of Kenya where people require to be given relief food. This should include ensuring that regions which had favourable climatic conditions get support to ensure that they retain the resources that they had which were in turn used to support other parts of the country. Kisii is such a place that needs that kind of a facility and support to ensure that we are not going to drop to the level of getting support from the Government in terms of relief food. As we establish these offices, it will be critical that even the composition of the office bearers should not be people from regions that have experienced drought alone. They should be people from all parts of Kenya, so that we can have diverse thinking and people who can look at The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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