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    "id": 67612,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Motion. What we have heard this morning from the contributions of hon. Members and even the responses from the two Ministers is that we all know what to do but we do not know when to do it. I think the biggest problem is that there is no planning and now, the Government is reacting. What the Ministers have told us today, and I wish they were here, they are trying to tell us what they have got to do and the situation is already grave. So I think when people take jobs, they should be prepared to serve Kenyans. There is no point of going around with a flag that you are a Minister if you cannot do the job, as shown by the statement that was given here, which was actually written. It cannot be said to be a slip of the tongue because we are watching a certain number of people to die. When a Minister talks of “minimum loss of human lives”, that shows that the statement is something that was prepared. Then they are saying that they are going to brief the President. They are not even listening to the comments that we are making here so that they can go and brief the President. We cannot run this country from the ivory tower. Even if you look at the issue of IDPs, a small thing, the Government has been unable to deal with this issue up to date. I think the Government created the Ministry to please the people of North Eastern or Northern Kenya. We have been having cases of flooding in Budalangi, are we going to create a Ministry in every place? We are saying that all the related Ministries must come together and then give solutions to the problem rather than deal with the problems on piecemeal basis to please your own ego. We cannot have this. Right now, when you approach Nairobi by air, it appears to have a lot of drought. When you go to a place like Kisumu right now, sometimes it is difficult to land in the evening which means that there are water variables like what the Minister for Forestry and Wildlife was trying to allude to. We must be prepared for this because these changes can occur anywhere. So we cannot say that we are going to do this, we are going to do this in the next five months. The other critical thing that I have seen here is this matter of politicizing unfortunate situations. The Minister said that they are going to give food rations so that they can be seen on TV that they are giving donations. We do not want to see that kind of thing on TV. We cannot wait for people to die and then we go there to give food rations. She is being seen in one place. She is not covering the whole country. We do not want the Ministers to tell us that we saw them on TV. I was even imagining something I have seen in America. America has got 14 Ministries and they are all specific. We want the Ministries to be proactive. For instance, in America, we have 14 Ministries which have specific tasks. I think it is the high time we had Ministries with specific tasks. There are many Cabinet Papers which have been prepared on the issue of North Eastern Province. But what happened to their implementation? The Government here has failed. We should implement the transitional clauses of the new Constitution, so that we have Parliament working on its own to serve Kenyans properly."
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