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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matungulu, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank Hon. Owino for bringing this issue to light. It is a total shame for this country at this hour. We have appropriated huge amount of resources in this House to the county governments to deal with hunger at the county level. It is high time this House took its mandate decisively and dealt with this issue once and for all. If you look at the amount of money which has been sent to these counties, you will find that is a lot, that we should not have heard of people dying of hunger. It is a shame to see some of these county governments talking about hunger. There have been investigations going on showing how the leaderships of those counties have squandered money, which has been sent to alleviate poverty in those areas. It is clearly lack of planning within the county governments and probably the national Government in looking at these issues. The indicators and the projections which had been given by the Metrological Department were very clear that we were going to experience this situation. Now, we are running around like we have not planned. We are talking about Kshs2 billion. Why are we looking at Kshs2 billion when people are dying? There is a lot of maize in Rift Valley which the Government needs to move with speed, buy and distribute to the entire country. What happened on the issue of maize? The fellows who were paid for maize were brokers and yet the farmers have food in this country? It is unacceptable in this day and age for a country like Kenya not to have enough reserves and enough food for its people. We have to speak to the voice of the people, and we must be heard so that this Government and the county governments take full responsibility to account for the money which we have sent to the county governments to deal with the issue of water. I believe if there was enough water, most Kenyans are not lazy; they would have farmed and put food on their table. Look at the project which was supposed to be done at Galana Kulalu."
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