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    "id": 885427,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/885427/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 373,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
        "slug": "mohammed-mahamud"
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    "content": "able to grow enough food, help our farmers and support them to grow food at least for subsistence so that they can be able to live through the whole year. We are also not able to plan for the food that we buy so that we can be able to distribute it to various parts of the country in need. We are always caught up with our pants down. Since December last year, the Meteorological Department has been announcing that the county will experience a serious drought. There have been announcements that the rains would be delayed, and here we are now in this problem. I know the Government is setting aside about Kshs2 billion to buy food. This sometimes also becomes a story because in one of the droughts, which was the severe one before this one, people’s animals were slaughtered and the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) was supposed to pay them and up to now, they have never been paid. I hope what they did yesterday was not just a public relations gimmick so that the people are not supported. Our county governments, because they are now the first on line, should prepare our people to cope with the weather conditions. Just in the last year, some months or years ago, Turkana was flooded and nobody could pass there. Today, we are talking about death of people. We have also been told that Budalang’i will experience floods in the next few weeks. We are dealing with this disaster of hunger now; we will deal with the floods issue again tomorrow. There is a serious planning problem in as far as planning for disasters is concerned. We are saying that one of the Big Four Agenda is food security. From the start, I think it is doomed to fail, I do not think we are prepared properly. Unless we have large irrigation programmes, like the Galana-Kulalu Irrigation Scheme in Tana River, we are talking of big projects and we are even unable to do backyard gardens. It is very serious."
}