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    "id": 976697,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/976697/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me thank the Chair for this Statement. Kenyans are surviving by the Grace of God. We thank God to have made it to March, 2020. We have had many challenges from the locust invasion to Corona Virus (COVID-19), terrorist attacks, a bad economy, name it. The country is facing serious dangers. Locusts, hitherto were called desert locusts and used to be known only in desert areas. We are told that what we are facing today last happened 70 years ago. Today, many parts of the world are seeing this as a weapon of mass destruction because it destroys your livelihood; crops, vegetation and everything. When this invasion first happened in Kenya, it was in the remote areas, but now it is everywhere. The former Cabinet Secretary told us to take pictures and send them if we see any insect that looked like locust. The current Cabinet Secretary said that they were not dangerous; that they were are old. Today the locusts have multiplied. Where they were before, they have left the larvae behind and they are going to metamorphosize and become a disaster. To date, there is no strategy in place, just like in many other things. First of all, we need prayers in this country because we are also in a very confused political environment. This country must wake up to the reality and deal with the problems that Kenyans are facing, including the locusts menace. If not, very soon we might face a revolution from Kenyans. I thank you."
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