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    "id": 742460,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/742460/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "The second thing is that the northern part of this country faces drought every year. To wait until people have lost lives and their only assets in life and then come up with a post-life loss compensation is cruel. No supplementary budget passed three weeks to the end of the fiscal year is going to fix the drought problem. We are trying to hoodwink Kenyans. There is strong global experience that countries that are almost entirely desert have been able to invest resources in water and in forage, including importing adequate forage into those areas and taking other measures in stock control to avoid loss of property and lives. You cannot use a supplementary budget to fix problems that have significant loss of lives and property. We are burying our heads in the sand knowing that in fact, these have essentially become sources of financing patronage that are not intended in any honest way to fix the problems that these northern Kenyan communities are particularly facing. Why would you let somebody lose all their camels and livestock and then you come back and say you will restock for them to die again in another year or so? This is an annual problem. The ministries concerned and the Government must step up to the task and pick lessons from countries that are almost nearly The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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