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    "id": 930499,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/930499/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13441,
        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "We should extend this fund to other emergencies. We have this notion that disasters can only be brought by the drought that we see. I want to bring it to the attention of this House that even in areas like where I come from where we grow rice in large scale; we are sometimes confronted by seasons that totally fail our farmers. When this happens, because again we are not known to be a drought-prone area, our farmers suffer without anybody coming to help them during that time. It may be out of a failed season or diseases like the one we call rice blast that affects the entire area and our farmers go without any coin in their pockets for a whole year. That means that they will not have anything to buy their food because they use their farms for growing rice and if it is not there, they have no money. Therefore, they suffer. This is why I am saying that I am very hopeful that as we make the subsidiary regulations for this fund, the secretary who will manage it will have a policy to extend the fund to some of these areas so that they can also benefit and we do not focus only on areas that are known to be drought-prone."
}