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    "id": 704897,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/704897/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abdirrahman",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 161,
        "legal_name": "Abdirahman Ali Hassan",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have listened to the Chairman of the Committee running through a long Statement on drought mitigation interventions. It is unfortunate that in this country, an ordinary herder will not understand when rainy seasons begin. Our problem as a nation is clearly indicated in the Statement that talks about the policy and institutional issues. The only Statement we hear here is the Draft Disaster Risk Management Policy and Bill is currently with the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government. It has been there for many years. This is the wrong time to run around and establish technical committees. That should have been a permanent institutional structure in terms of coordination between the various Ministries. This is the failure of this Government and the previous Governments. By the NDMA is actually a routine piece of work. This is not what we expected. There is a delayed response for drought. Drought has become a major occurrence in almost all ASAL areas and the Government should actually have responded as early as 15th of October. We have the Meteorology Department which can share information with the Ministry of Devolution and Planning and Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government. They are now running around talking about Kshs5 billion. I want to ask both in the short-term and long-term since these are very short interventions, what does these Ministries or generally this Government has in terms of building drought resilience for these communities? There should be drought resilience projects and not piecemeal projects. Also, how are you coordinating much more effectively between the county governments and the national government to see that we do not have this repeated mistakes that our people have faced for many years?"
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