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    "id": 981531,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/981531/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mbeere South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Muturi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13431,
        "legal_name": "Geoffrey Kingagi Muturi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a national disaster. We are facing hunger and wiping out of livelihoods. In Mbeere South, we grow millet, sorghum, maize, green grams and legumes called thoroko, which have all been wiped away. We are now going to the planting season, the crops will germinate as the new group of locusts will be hatching. We are facing a national disaster. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my request is that the Government should declare this phenomenon a national disaster. That way, the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) will assist since they have just been sleeping on the job. Other organisations like the Kenya National Disaster Operations Centre (NDOC) will join them. The organisation is operated by retired military officers some of whom I know to be very competent people. Before they are activated, they can do nothing. We need this phenomenon to be declared a national disaster. Parliament can also allocate money and mobilise the whole country against it. We cannot just sit around and be told by the Cabinet Secretary that he has mobilised 700 youth with 700 hand pumps. They cannot even spray one ward. I think Parliament needs to go to Mbeere and see what it means to be invaded by locusts. It is one locust for every inch in the whole constituency. I humbly appeal to the Government."
}