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    "id": 887541,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu West, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Naisula Lesuuda",
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        "legal_name": "Naisula Lesuuda",
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    "content": "days until they die. As a country, the first thing we should have done yesterday was to apologise to Kenyans for failing as leadership. The other day when we had the Devolution Conference, we saw a rosy picture. There is no single county that came up with the challenges that they are facing. There is no county that told us some of the challenges they are facing in the implementation of the Constitution and devolution. I do not think it has been months since the Devolution Conference. We are now seeing the real issues on the ground. It is an embarrassment. We agree that food security is a devolved function. It is the prime responsibility of the counties. As the national Government, we also have money for water, fertilisers and food. It is no surprise that somehow, we have just gotten Kshs2 billion from somewhere. We have now gotten Kshs2 billion while every day we knocked on those offices asking that dams be built and boreholes be rehabilitated. We were told that the National Treasury had not given them money or that they will be put in the 2019/2020 Budget. Somehow, we now have it when it cannot help us much. We see the food being taken to our counties, Samburu being one of them. The Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and ASALs will be there tomorrow or the day after. We are giving food, and mostly it is just maize, to hungry people. Where will they even get the water to cook that maize? You are taking maize and you can imagine how difficult it is to cook maize. It takes hours. There is no water to cook those maize and beans. If we are lucky, we get some oil. We should move away from this story of relief food. I am even embarrassed that at this time we are still talking about relief food. It is impoverishing our people. It makes us beggars. It makes the people to always want. We want to be self-reliant. We are capable. If you come to my constituency, people have already changed their lifestyle whereby in the arable part of my constituency, people are practising farming and growing crops. Water is our biggest challenge. It is time the county government and the national Government put interventions in place to make sure that we have water. If anything, we used to do better when the NG-CDF used to deal with water than now when it is all over. It would have been better. I saw boreholes being built when Members of Parliament dealt with the issue of water using their kitty. We put it in our Constitution when we devolved some of these functions. Therefore, drought is not an emergency. If we continue to fail to plan, we are just planning to fail as a country. It is something that was said by the Majority Chief Whip. He said that the Meteorological Department is very consistent. What they told us is true. We want to construct 31 dams in three weeks. How logical is it?"
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