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    "id": 767224,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wario",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13224,
        "legal_name": "Golich Juma Wario",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. As we all know, we experienced a long drought for several years. That touched on the livelihood of our people mostly from where I come from; Tana River County, the neighbouring counties that I travel through like Kitui County and the northern Kenya counties which are prone to this drought. As I was travelling through Tana River County, I witnessed people die in shallow wells in search of water for their livelihood, domestic use and for their livestock. It is serious to go through this experience. On the other side, My county borders Tsavo East National Park. There are clear guidelines on national parks that you cannot go to a national park and graze. The lands in the parks have a lot of pasture and water reserves. When our people penetrate through there in search for pasture, they get into conflict with the game reservists and the wildlife. Madam Speaker, our people sat down and prayed and we got some rains. As we are speaking, in the lower Tana in Sala, Madogo and Garsen areas, floods came all through from the upper river and swept off all the remaining livestock. We were talking of drought just the other day, today the other calamity of floods has come in. Whatever remained, has been washed away by floods. All our livestock has perished, the remaining ones are in poor body condition that they cannot meet any market price anywhere. That means a lot. If a livestock keeper remains with nothing or few livestock that cannot meet the standards of the livestock market, it means they cannot pay school fees and have food security. This Motion comes at the most appropriate time. We need to have somebody who will be responsible for NDMA. This is one of few departments of the Government Ministries which I do see working there when calamities arise. I strongly support the Motion. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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