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    "id": 908802,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/908802/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego-Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": "First, this country is experiencing food insufficiency. In the recent past, there have been pictures all over in the media of Kenyans dying of hunger and shortage of water. So, we must ensure that we run a Budget that does not expose Kenyans. That is the reason why I support the resolution that we should give a special allocation to relief food under the Ministry of Devolution. You will realise that the Government has been trying to resolve the crisis of food insufficiency in the country by way of going through Contingency Fund. However, we have been told that the process of getting resources from that Fund is not very easy. So, you find that whereas the President would tell the Treasury to give out resources to sort out relief challenges, it takes a long time and by the time these resources are availed, many Kenyans have died. So, in this Budget, we must allocate resources to sort out relief food challenges. Today, there are sections of Kenya which suffer food insufficiency, whether there is rain or not. These large sections in Kenya include places in Nyanza and others across the country."
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