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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Wekesa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 209,
        "legal_name": "Noah Mahalang'ang'a Wekesa",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me this opportunity. I wish to support the Motion and say that drought is a phenomenon of climate change. Many people have not realised that climate change is with us. We have been told by scientists time and again that climate change is, indeed, with Kenya as it is with many other countries. It was only recently that we were in Mexico to talk about climate change. A year ago, we were in Copenhagen. Those of us who were in Copenhagen or Mexico heard horrifying stories about climate change. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as Members of Parliament, we ought to educate our people that climate change is real, and we must do everything possible to mitigate its effects. So, it is not an issue of fire fighting. It is not an issue of Kenya having hunger. We must prepare ourselves during budgeting to ensure that we have mitigation programmes to deal with hunger. Last year, we had more rain than ever before. Where I come from, we had more than three times the amount of rainfall that we usually get. As a result of that rainfall, we had a lot of maize produced. However, as a Government, we were not even prepared to receive the maize from farmers, or to enable the farmers to keep maize under cover. So, we had a lot of rot. Many farmers throughout the country have lost maize because of rot, not to mention the fact that there is no space within the NCPB to receive the maize that farmers have produced. I was in Kitale last week. I went to Moi’s Bridge, where I saw a six-kilometre queue of lorries waiting to deliver maize to the NCPB depot. The maize we produced last year is---"
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