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    "id": 887520,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/887520/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana Central, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Lodepe Nakara",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2926,
        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
        "slug": "john-lodepe-nakara"
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    "content": "First of all, we have experts in this country who should be advising the Government on disasters of all kinds. However, when our experts fail to advise the Government on such a matter, it is a disease that we need to treat. When we come together as a nation, we must think on how many times the problem has occurred in our country and find a permanent solution to it. We must come up with a way that can stop this from happening again. I agree with the Members who said that we have allocated a lot of money to this issue of food. When we talk about food production, we need water. We have land in Turkana. I have heard some Members blaming the County Government of Turkana. We have an aquifer in Turkana which needs a lot of money, around Kshs100 billion to Kshs200 billion, to bring that water out. If the national Government can give Turkana County that money and the water is found, we will solve the problem of hunger. We have an aquifer in Nayu that can serve that county. We, therefore, need solutions. Irrigation is the solution. Where we do not have enough rain like in Turkana, we can practice irrigation. We want the county government to allocate money for that category. We can have small businesses there. This issue of depending on cash handouts or food relief every now and then should stop. We need to empower our people to do small businesses, so that they can become self-reliant. We also want to plant crops that can do well in those areas. Sorghum, for example, can do well in Turkana. We can also have maize in some places. We should not only get food from outside, but rather produce some from within. That way, we can solve our problems. We also need to have some storage facilities within the counties so that when there is such kind of a calamity, we will only need to rush to our storage facility to get food than waiting for three to four days for food to arrive because some people would have died by the time food arrives. We should not say that people are not dying and yet there is no food. There is food in major towns but transportation logistics is another problem. So, we are pleading with the Government to release either the National Youth Service (NYS) vehicles, so they can take food from those centres to the affected areas."
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