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    "id": 784086,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/784086/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
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    "content": " It was the Senator of Tharaka Nithi then. He told me that the questions the locals asked were: one, “When you go and pour fishlings into a flowing river that flows to Garissa County, are the fish for Tharaka Nithi County, Garissa County or Tana River County where there is enough fish?” The second question was: “How do you audit such a project?” The things that must be done are those that change lives and must be accounted for. Clause 5(2)(g)(i) of the Bill says:- “formulate and implement the family support programme and other appropriate programmes targeting— (i) food for poor persons, households and communities for the greater enhancement of their ability to produce or purchase essential food items and commodities in adequate quantities and quality; and---” We already have social programmes that are being implemented by the national Government at the moment, but at the local level, the county governments must identify the families that are threatened and the issues that they are going through; persons who are at risk and persons who suffer from certain kind of diseases, who must be supported to get the necessary food to protect themselves. Clause 5(2)(h) states:- “put in place measures to ensure the availability and accessibility of food for individuals, groups and communities caught up in food emergencies and humanitarian disasters;” Clause 5(2)(j) states:- “take all reasonable measures to ensure that food resources and sources of food production are protected from destruction and are sustained for future use;” Clause 5(2)(k) states:- “monitor and evaluate strategies and programmes for the realization of the right to be free from hunger and the right to adequate food.” There is a guarantee of transparency and accountability in the design and implementation of the programmes and the interventions. It is sad that we have vultures, “tenderpreneurs” and evil people. As a right thinking Kenyan, when it is raining and there are floods and you are thinking of how you can save people, other people are calculating how much destruction the floods are doing for them to get a tender to intervene. We must get rid of that kind of mentality in the Government circles, both at the county and the national level. People wait and allow situations of emergencies to occur because they know such situations do not give room for procurement processes. So, to get a shortcut to deal with the procurement process, people will let emergencies to occur so that within a day, they will procure materials for building of a bridge or to rush and give food to people of a particular area."
}