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    "id": 719918,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "struggling. The national Government is also struggling, but the issue is about bureaucracy and the problem of disbursement. On the issue of buying livestock, the other day the Government agreed that they can buy lean livestock and take them to the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC), but we have said no. Those animals cannot reach KMC. They can only be slaughtered on the ground and meat be distributed to the local people to provide protein for our people, while they are being given maize or other rations. But the problem again is that the number of livestock allocated is so small. In Samburu North, only 300 cows have been identified for off-take which is a drop in the ocean. We urge the Government to increase the number of livestock being bought by the Government. The Government should increase that funding to salvage our people because drought is really biting. There is also a problem of water shortage. Water is life and we are unable to rescue our people from thirst and lack of water to even prepare food. If you give people food and there is no water, they cannot eat that food. Concerning the issue of the doctors’ strike, we have a problem. The Government needs to take a decisive action. They should engage in dialogue with the doctors to save our people because many people are dying. Many Kenyans cannot afford services in private hospitals. We urge the Government to take the initiative, bite the bullet and sit down with the doctors and agree on an agreement that can return the doctors to their jobs, so that suffering of our people can be stopped. With regard to the issue of equipment that were purchased and allocated to counties, that is a milestone for Samburu County, particularly Samburu North Constituency. We have been suffering and losing lives. The only public referral hospital is in Nairobi. Now we can do some diagnostics in our counties. That way, we can save lives in our county hospitals. Tests are now being done at the counties unlike before. We are looking forward to diseases like cancer and diabetes being diagnosed and treated at the county level. Therefore, I disagree with Members who are suggesting that we go back to where we were before. That would take us back and we would suffer more. I want to congratulate the Jubilee Government because today I saw in the newspapers that Posta-Maralal Road has been advertised for tarmacking. This is something we have never seen before. We love this. We want to support that initiative. We want to request the national Government, under the wise leadership of Uhuru Kenyatta, to do the same from Maralal to Baragoi up to Loiyangalani. We look forward to when the Jubilee Government takes power again in the next elections. We are sure they will, so that the project can extend to Loiyangalani. We yearn for that road that can open up Samburu County for economic development, employment and even exploitation of enormous resources available in our county. With those remarks, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I support."
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