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    "id": 887566,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/887566/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Soy, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caleb Kositany",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13483,
        "legal_name": "Caleb Kipkemei Kositany",
        "slug": "caleb-kipkemei-kositany"
    },
    "content": " Since the year 2000, the Government has been purchasing two billion bags of maize for Strategic Grain Reserve yet our population has since doubled. The Government should be prepared to purchase at least five billion bags for strategic good reserve. Drought is not an issue that just comes in a day. That you wake up the following day and all of a sudden you are facing drought. It is a factor that comes in and you can plan for it. We want our county governments to be able to plan and if they are having procurement issues, they should be allowed to purchase maize. They should give us the challenges they are facing, we legislate in this House and allow the county governments of Turkana, Baringo, Samburu and others with special cases to purchase maize directly from maize growing areas of Uasin Gishu, Trans-Nzoia, Nandi and Trans-Mara. We also want to say that the issue of water is very key whether we have food or not. We also need water for livestock. If somebody is dying of hunger and has a cow to milk or something to even slaughter and eat… So, we also want to say that county governments should concentrate on having water for their people. This brings us to the key issue of the NG-CDF. As Members of this House, we need to increase funding to the NG-CDF, so that we can zero in and deal with this problem in a closer manner and we do not have to keep shifting the blame. With those few remarks, I beg to support and ask all agencies to be serious with their work."
}