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    "id": 701118,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is normal to have natural phenomena like droughts and floods. This is not surprising but what is annoying is our perennial unpreparedness that any time we face situations like this we are caught classically pants down, as it were. Five years ago, I chaired a committee that was styled as a Parliamentary Select Committee on Cost of Living and we investigated a wide array of issues including just how prepared this country is in dealing with natural phenomena like droughts and shortages and also how we share our resources from areas of plenty to areas of need . Also how we equalise or share out resources from areas of plenty to areas of need. At that time, there was biting drought and famine in Turkana at a time when milk producers in Bomet, South Rift and other parts of the country were spilling their milk to the ground because they did not have a market for it. The Government of that day had absolutely no mechanism, framework or arrangement of how to transport or share the plentiful milk in the South Rift to the starving people of Turkana."
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