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    "id": 971288,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/971288/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe",
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        "legal_name": "Steve Ltumbesi Lelegwe",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion, today, Thursday, 12th March, 2020 - AWARE THAT, for the first time in seventy years, Kenya is experiencing a humanitarian and conservation catastrophe in the wake of the desert locust invasion affecting more than a quarter of the entire country; FURTHER AWARE THAT, the swarms now invading Kenya arrived from Somalia and Ethiopia, where they have already caused widespread devastation of crops and grazing land before moving south and then west; COGNIZANT THAT, locusts are highly mobile and destructive, and according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), each square kilometre of locusts in a swarm can eat as much in a day as 35,000 people; CONCERNED THAT, localized aerial spraying using chemicals that are purportedly safe for humans and other insects has failed to contain the invasion, causing farmers to take matters into their own hands, and use more harmful pesticides that could have a serious environmental impact; NOW THEREFORE, the Senate urges the national Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, in partnership with the county governments to- 1. declare the locust invasion a national disaster; 2. develop methods for sharing information and best practices to coordinate and build the necessary capacity in combating the locust menace to predict, monitor and control the spread of new swarms; 3. establish modalities for enhancing the requisite financial, technical and logistical capacity of the Desert Locust Control Organisation for Eastern Africa; 4. support the counties with urgent and consistent resources such as pesticides, sprayers and motor vehicles in order to control the reproduction and further spread of the locusts;"
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