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    "id": 981530,
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    "speaker_name": "Mbeere South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Muturi",
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        "legal_name": "Geoffrey Kingagi Muturi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I thank my neighbour and friend, the Member for Tharaka, for bringing this Motion. As other Members have said, the locusts were predicted in November. They entered Kenya after Christmas, around 28th December. On 24th January, they reached Mbeere South. Since they entered Mbeere South, there has been a lot of devastation. I have been living with them for the last one month. We have shouted ourselves hoarse. We have tweeted and done all manner of things. The first invasion was by the black locusts. We managed them using all manner of innovations, including using smoke and pepper to smoke them. Some engineers started using snuff in the smoke to ensure they do not even land. Somehow, we managed to wade off the first wave. However, as I speak, the whole of Mbeere South is covered by yellow locusts. I was petrified to hear a Cabinet Secretary making jokes about old locusts. In one of my wards called Kiambere, the whole ground is perforated with holes measuring one inch and less than an inch apart. I understand the yellow locusts are carrying eggs and that is why they are not moving fast. Each one of them is digging about three holes and for every hole, they put 50 eggs. So, every one of them is multiplying itself 150 times. If we had two million locusts, we are looking at over 300 million locusts in another two or three weeks. This is a national disaster. That is why I was transfixed and terrified to hear the Cabinet Secretary making jokes about the locusts."
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