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    "id": 823537,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/823537/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ken Chonga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for according me this opportunity. I will painfully use English with very clear reasons as much as I am born and brought up in Kilifi. I come from Kilifi South. First of all, I congratulate my brother, Hon. Owen Baya, for bringing up this Motion. The effects of drought within Kilifi County or the Coast region in general regarding the coconut tree, are not issues that are only known to the people of Kilifi or the Coast. I know very well that those issues are known throughout within the ranks of the national Government. The effects of drought were not only witnessed in the period 2016-2017. As we know very well, with the changing weather patterns, there was drought sometime before 2004. I remember sometime in 1983, we also had a similar problem. To my surprise, when I look at similar areas which have been beaten by the effects of drought, when pyrethrum was affected, the Government came in handy and bailed out farmers. Just a few years ago, pastoralists were equally affected. Quite a number of cows died. The Government had to come in with mitigation measures where cows were bought from pastoralists. The Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) also came up strongly to assist the farmers. To my surprise, the coconut farmer has never featured anywhere regarding the effects of drought."
}