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    "id": 67592,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Mathenge",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Special Programmes",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Esther Murugi Mathenge",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think it was a slip of the tongue. I know people die every day from other sources apart from hunger. So, excuse me if I said the wrong thing. As you know, we feed one million Kenyans under the Protracted Relief and Recovery Programme and 1.6 million Kenyans are fed through the World Food Programme (WFP). We expect that in the next two to three months, this number will rise to five million. I want to assure hon. Members that as we were doing the tour yesterday, we wanted to ascertain whether the farmers have the maize. We have noticed that they have the maize and, therefore, we do not need to declare the drought a national disaster right now. What we need to do and we are doing is to mop up all the maize the farmers have produced and to create logistics so that all this maize can reach the hunger prone areas. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, unfortunately, if you look at the map of Kenya, most of the areas that are hunger stricken also have very poor infrastructure. That is another handicap that the Ministry has. I can, however, assure you that as we go to meet with His Excellency the President in the next few minutes, one of the requirements we are going to make is that the armed forces leave the barracks and help us to ensure the food reaches the needy areas."
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