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    "id": 887568,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/887568/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to support this Motion. At the outset, I would like to empathise with our brothers and sisters who are affected by the drought. This is about management of resources. This is about being proactive and not reactive. This is not about apportioning blame. As a Member of Parliament, I feel part of the problem. I am supposed to be monitoring, conducting oversight and giving signals that we have a problem. We should be discussing here what the Government is doing or the plans the Government has. We should not wait until people start dying, we come and debate this issue and start apportioning blame. Therefore, this is a multi-sectoral issue that we need to look at broadly. We cannot rule out that county governments and the national Government have a role. Over the years, we have seen this problem roll out. What we have not seen is a serious plan to ensure that this problem does not recur. I have people going without water in my constituency. River Thiba has dried up. Why? It is because we have an agency called “Water Resources Management Authority (WARMA)” that is not able to manage resources. People living upstream are using the remaining little water to do irrigation."
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