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    "id": 701138,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Saney",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ibrahim Abdi Saney",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to briefly say that drought as a disaster is common all over the world. In Kenya it has been cyclical and predictable but it is killing our people. The problem is lack of planning, and lack of preparedness in both tiers of Government. We always point fingers to lack of rainfall. Even it rains on an average basis, we end up having an artificial drought created by other reasons. I believe what we are going through right now is as a result of the national Government and the county governments not factoring in good budgets to ensure that we mitigate drought. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, 70 per cent of Kenya is made up of ASALs. It is regrettable that both the county government and national Government do not factor aspects of pastoral livelihoods even with that kind of landmass. What we go through are ad-hoc engagements and reactions and calling on the President to declare drought as a national disaster. That will not help pastoralists. What is the national Government and the county governments doing to mitigate drought? As we speak, pastoralists are willing to sell their livestock. Where will they offload their stock? There are no markets. Previously, we used to complain that pastoralists are keeping large herds of livestock for prestige. That no longer holds. Pastoralists are willing to sell their livestock, but there are no markets. The Kenya Meat Commission (KMC), the only parastatal that was to offer market is not functioning. We are trying to put up more abattoirs which are infrastructure driven development, but there is no software. Are we looking at the entire supply chain? We must be very focused in the gazettement of pasture areas. We are creating settlement day in, day out without regard to our livelihood. Why can we not gazette pasture land the way we are seriously gazetting forests?"
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