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    "id": 976688,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "a situation like this, the President should actually deploy the military with equipment to go everywhere and spray these insects and kill them. The World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the United Nations (UN) have already issued an alert, yet we who are affected are having business as usual. Cabinet Secretaries making very bizarre statements that they will just age and die and so on. We need urgent solutions. I want to urge that you obligate the Chair of the Committee, as long as we have this menace, to give a fortnightly update to this House on what is going on with locust invasion in the country. It is not something that we should take lightly because it is hitting the poorest of the poor because food security is smashed and we must all stand up and be counted. Lastly, I saw some clip, that counties must have emergency activities to fight locusts but we also know that they have very limited capacity in terms of finances. The Contingency Fund of the State, Kenya, is held at the national Government level. So, we also want the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries to tell this House what level of collaboration and cooperation is going on between counties and the national Government in the war against locusts. What equipment has been deployed and how much money is being sent to the counties with, of course, the usual protection against corruption that is ravaging each county. Thank you."
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