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    "id": 930597,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "The country is experiencing drought. Yesterday I went to a court in Meru to represent Hon. John Paul Mwirigi in some matter there and I was surprised that even Meru, which has been wet over the years, has signs of drought. In fact, in one market which is known for the sale of bananas, traders claimed that there are insufficient bananas because of drought. They are finding it unusually difficult. Therefore, that is a clear indicator that there is drought in the country. We need to manage drought better. We have been lobbying many organisations and churches abroad and individuals to bring food donations to the country. However, there is a challenge of whether the food donations will be channeled through the Ministry of Education, which is in charge of the school feeding programme, the Ministry of Devolution or the Office of the President, through the county government system. The situation is not clear. This is a national matter that does not involve counties. Sometimes misconceptions may arise because agriculture is a devolved function, but this particular aspect is not listed in Schedule IV of the Constitution. Therefore, one cannot raise that argument. At times donations go through the county commissioners and chiefs. When people are dehydrated and die of hunger, many times there are arguments. As my friend, Hon. Washiali said, there are some chiefs who got into trouble when they claimed that someone died of hunger and there was insistence that the death was caused by something different. Signs of death caused by hunger are clear. A family in such circumstances would have gone for five days without food and water. With dehydration, chances of death are very high and can easily be deduced even without doing a post-mortem. Post-mortems are expensive. They cost up to Kshs30,000. Where there is a dispute, we should look for a volunteer doctor to ascertain the cause of death like in the case of Turkana. We need to have statistics which will help Parliament The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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