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    "id": 67600,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. I.E. Mohamed",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 82,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Ibrahim Elmi",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to brief hon. Members that one of the key roles of the Ministry of Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands in this case of drought will be coordination. There is the early warning system to ensure that at the district level we have BAGs functioning. I want to promise hon. Members that we will direct all BAGs to furnish you once every two weeks with all the resources that come to the ground and where the camps are. We will also do a national update that we will give to you. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want it to be known that the coordination is wide from the Ministry of State for Special Programmes, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Livestock and the Office of the President. I also want to assure Members of Parliament because a number of contributors wondered what we are doing in the long-term. We are in the process of setting up the National Drought Management Authority that in the future will be looking towards the long-term mitigation and planning. In the next one year, there will be abattoirs in North Eastern, Upper Eastern and Upper Rift Valley, so that in future livestock will not die. So I am asking the hon. Members and the pastoralists that as we do this emergency and bring our act together, we urge that we try to make sure that pastoralists keep peace. We should allow communities to move freely to where pasture is and to use their age old coping mechanisms. We should allow livestock movement where there is pasture so that things can be properly done. I want to inform hon. Members that when there is drought, conflicts do arise. We need to be able to sort them out quite quickly. Therefore, they should quite quickly approach the Ministry if they have a feeling that there might be conflicts as a result of drought. With those few remarks, I want to assure hon. Members that they will be getting updates of what is happening."
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