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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Bahari",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Bahari Ali Jillo",
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    "content": "Under emergencies, a lot of resources have been allocated. Accountability needs to be enhanced during emergencies. Under emergencies, there has been a lot of misappropriations and misuse of public funds. Indeed, the Ministers responsible are here and I can see the Deputy Leader of Government Business. I know the Members of the Public Accounts Committee are also here. We need a special audit on all the emergencies. As soon as we are through, there is need for a special audit report by the Controller and Auditor-General, so that we can ensure that there is transparency and people are not out to enrich themselves out of some of these programmes. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you go to other countries and see how they cope with arid situations, you wonder why we are even given relief food. The only reason is that we have not applied ourselves to the issue properly. The one responsible and at the helm of mobilizing the population to feed themselves is the Government. That is why we are in leadership and in the positions that we have been appointed to by the public. You wonder where the aridity is in the first place. There is no place in this country that is arid if resources are put into use properly. We must get out of this. I want to mention two issues. The desperate movements by the pastoralists, left, right and centre, cause a lot of insecurity. This aspect of insecurity must also be tackled. For example, in my constituency, we have recently had a few cases of insecurity. We are trying to talk to the people who are involved, but this aspect should be addressed together with the issue of livestock diseases. It comes from all those movements, and it undermines the ability of the pastoralists to cope with the drought. Right now, the Meteorological Department has projected---"
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