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    "id": 719329,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/719329/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 981,
        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "end. The people’s representatives cannot spend time every year lamenting drought, lamenting that there is not sufficient rainfall and there is not sufficient food in the country. We note the efforts that the State Department of Special Programmes under the Ministry of Devolution and Planning has made. We have seen relief food being supplied in some parts of the country, but that is not enough. I come from Nyeri County. Ordinarily, when there is sufficient rainfall, we have enough food for ourselves and extra to sell. However, we again lament on road network. If we have good roads, we can transport food items from places that have more than enough food to places that do not have enough food. Nyeri County also has vulnerable groups of people who need relief food. There are people living in the colonial villages without land. Those people need to be considered for relief food supplies. Persons living with HIV/AIDs and persons with disabilities are increasingly in need of relief food. One of these fine days we might have to debate the matter of single mothers, their families and female-headed households that need to be considered in the relief food system. As the drought continues, and as the relief food programmes continue, the Ministry should make sure that the many households that are affected by this problem receive sufficient relief food until such a time when there will be enough food in the country. The Department of Special Programmes is engaged in supply of water and sinking of boreholes. They should continue with that effort. The effort against drought is an effort to make water available to vulnerable groups. The Ministry should continue with the effort they are making. As a country, there might be need to create a Ministry of special programmes, so that such responsibility is not carried out by a department within the larger Ministry of Devolution and Planning. Given the incidences that we have to deal with, the level of planning that we need to engage in, and the level of resources that we need, maybe time has come for us to create a stand-alone Ministry to just deal with these questions and to be accountable to Parliament on matters of this nature."
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