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    "id": 719364,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/719364/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 139,
        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to say something about the drought that we are facing in this country. I want to thank Hon. Ochieng for bringing it up so that we can discuss and give our suggestions. It is not good enough for us that when we have a problem we rush in with emergency measures and soon after the emergency measures have been put in place, we go back and wait for another problem to come up. It is high time the Government looks at it in terms of having short and long-term measures run concurrently so that the long-term measures can become useful. Also, when we have these problems, we can face food insecurities easily. I know the Jubilee Government had intentions of harvesting water to ensure that it is used during the dry season or even before to produce enough food. The Government should look at its policies in terms of introducing irrigation in areas where aflatoxin is not an issue. We are producing food in quite a number of areas, but it is being affected by aflatoxin, especially maize. It becomes difficult to use it for human consumption. We end up losing quite a number of our produce unnecessarily. We should look at that problem and come up with measures to ensure that once food has been produced, it is stored nicely after properly drying it up. That way, aflatoxin will not be an issue."
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