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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Ndeti",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
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        "legal_name": "Wavinya Ndeti",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will try to be as brief as possible. I stand to support this Motion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, people fail to plan; you do not plan to fail. If we had planned properly, this would not have happened. We know that 80 per cent of this country is semi-arid. The Government has given the resources. There are those people who are supposed to be implementing Government policies. What they should be looking at is: Are these policies being implemented the way they should be implemented by those people? Again, as a country, we should also get our priorities right. We know what is happening to our country; we are busy running all over the country doing politics instead of thinking of how to feed our people. It is high time that we all concentrated on ensuring that our people are well fed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a bit sad; in Ukambani, we harvested a lot of maize, but a lot of it got wasted with aflatoxins. We asked the Government to buy our maize. Our maize was being bought at either Kshs1, 500 and a price was set at Kshs1, 500 when most of the food had already been destroyed. What I would like to ask the Government - I am also part of the Government– we should be able to ensure that whatever we produce in this country is taken and is well taken care of. Like in Ukambani, we do not have enough food storage facilities. If we had places to store the food, our food would not have gotten spoilt. It is sad that our people are now going to die of hunger because our food got spoilt. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are talking about north eastern. As much as I support the Motion that the people of north eastern should be helped, we should also look at Ukambani in a month’s time. The drought has already started and people in Ukambani will soon be dying of hunger. Therefore, we should be able to plan properly to ensure, first of all, that as a priority, people are fed. I do not see why people are saying that now we are running around trying to make sure that our people are fed. We should not be seeing people in Turkana dying! The first people to die are children. You know, these men – I am sorry to say so – they can go around and find a way of feeding themselves. They can eat nyama choma and all that. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if there are any lorries that are supposed to get out, let them get out now and take food to the women and children of north eastern and also eastern regions. Now it is the dry season. The Government should concentrate on doing dams now so that when the rains come, these dams are filled with water."
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