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    "id": 67547,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/67547/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Food security is very important. Food security brings about peace. Food security brings about good neighbourliness. Food security promotes our nationhood. Without food security, we cannot have wealth. In some countries, citizens have taken to the streets because of lack of food or general economic opportunities. It is the high time that we asked the Government, as a matter of urgency, to first of all, adhere to the stated objective of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). The NEPAD policy requires that all governments allocate 10 per cent of their budgets to food production. In our case, shockingly, it was 3 per cent and recently, it was increased to 6 per cent. Kenya is a member of the NEPAD initiative and this issue must be realized. Therefore, it is the high time that in line with NEPAD recommendation, we accepted that we need to increase our agricultural input from 6 per cent to 10 per cent. We are asking the Government to declare the drought and famine situation in the country as a national disaster. I want to challenge the Ministers who have been to different parts of Kenya to accompany me to my constituency. That is when they will see what is happening on the ground because seeing is believing. People are dying and our livestock is perishing in large numbers."
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