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    "id": 67657,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am very grateful. I do not want to repeat what has been said, but I was in Kisumu over the weekend and it was raining very heavily in western Kenya. When we are there we forget that, perhaps, there are other places that have drought. That is the typical problem that we have. As long as it is raining in one area we forget that North Eastern Province and other areas are experiencing drought. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this country is talking about putting together Kshs4.7 billion to provide defence for our Kenyans who are going to the ICC, yet I have not heard of putting aside even Kshs1 billion for strategic food reserves. We were told by the Right hon. Prime Minister that we were increasing our strategic stocks. I have heard nothing since about our strategic stocks increasing by 50 or 20 per cent or whatever. People are starving in northern Kenya. I saw some people the other day eating water lilies, yet we have the Nile Treaty and we are talking about building dams. We cannot build dams because some people have not been doing their work to make sure that we have money with which to build dams. Mr. Speaker, Sir, even the pharaoh, at the time of Moses, was able to plan for famine, yet several centuries later we are in an even worse situation than the pharaoh of Egypt, who had granaries of food. I am just wondering where we are going. We may have lorries, but the cost of petrol is excessive. Lorries are not available. Then there are the bulk grain handling people, who are making a lot of profits when they bring grain into this country. I think that is why they want us to use their systems. Why can we not put aside Kshs1 billion tomorrow and make sure that every single bag of maize that is produced in this country is purchased and stored. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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