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    "id": 930475,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/930475/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am a Member of the Labour and Social Welfare Committee which came up with this Bill. This is an idea whose time has come, where we would be having a national drought management fund. This would be a fund that would attract donations and finances from our Government so that we do not respond to such disasters like drought in some knee-jerk reactions. We have so many funds in this country that have been able to attract a lot of donations. They include: The National Development Fund for Persons with Disabilities, the National Fund for the Disabled of Kenya and many others and apart from the allocation from the Government, they have attracted a lot of funds from well-wishers. Whenever there is a drought, we respond from all corners, from individuals like Akothee and everyone else rushing to Turkana to respond without proper laid down procedures of responding to such disaster. At the moment, it is Red Cross that attracts a lot of donations from all over the world and from within this country. That is a private entity that we do not audit. We do not know if these funds reach the beneficiaries in time and in equal proportion. In my community, we say that an empty stomach cannot wait for a cooking pot. If we have a knee-jerk kind of reaction, that we will wait for drought to hit and then after people die, we rush to collect funds or come to this House to allocate funds for such response, we are wrong. If the stomach cannot wait for that pot that was on fire, it cannot wait for money to be allocated from Parliament or Treasury to reach those beneficiaries. Therefore, this fund is important because it will be in place all year round. People will be given opportunity to donate funds so that when we have such disasters, we are already prepared. Weather men can predict to us when we need to use these funds."
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