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    "id": 767519,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dullo Fatuma Adan",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I wish to take this opportunity to thank all those who have contributed. This matter has been canvassed since yesterday. It is a pertinent issue in our country. We need to take action on the issues that have been raised by Members. I need to get a copy of the HANSARD and make sure that all those concerns raised by Members are taken care of. I will point out a few things that have been said, one of them being the empowerment of the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA). Without empowerment, NDMA will not deliver on its mandate. It is high time that the Government empowered NDMA. It should also harmonize the programs of drought and disaster management in this country and hand it over to NDMA as an institution. The other point that I thought we should bring on board is the issue of the amendment of the Act before implementation or even in the process of implementation. It is to take care of certain issues raised by Members specifically, the issue of a Fund Manager, which needs to be taken care of. Without the Fund Manager, we might lose on the objective of this particular Act. I believe that we might amend the Act at some stage. The other concern raised by so many Members is the need for coming up with better strategies. This is because we cannot be having drought and emergencies year in, year out. We must have a solution to this problem. Drought should not be business as usual in this country. In as much as we are only focusing on pastoralism, agriculture in most of those areas is also affected. In Isiolo, there are some communities who are growing crops but do not produce anything when there is drought. We also need to focus on the crop aspect in those areas. What should we do when there is drought? We need to have an effective program, especially the off-take program that was introduced by the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries to take care of the animals that are almost dying. This strategy is not working. In Isiolo, there were a lot of promises and this has not been implemented up to now. As one of the Senators has said, we are buying these animals when they are almost dying thus they do not even have flesh. What is the use of buying these animals when they are about to die. Clearly, the pastoralists who are selling these animals are not getting value for their products. There are proposals to come up with a Ministry and I think that this is a matter that we need to consider. It should be a Ministry that can deal with the issues of drought and disaster management. Corruption is also a matter that we need to deal with. Implementation of the decisions of this House is another issue. This is a matter that was The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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