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    "id": 981554,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": " Thanks a lot, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. We are a casual country. Both the people and our Government are very casual. We deal with things as though they do not matter much even when they touch on the core of our livelihoods. There is a big problem in the country. I do not understand why we get warnings. I do not understand why we have institutions for purposes of early warning because they are never taken seriously. I do not understand why we need to place resources in those kinds of institutions. We never take them seriously. When there is an outbreak like what we are seeing in parts of the country, when you check on social media, people in the rest of the country are just marvelling. They do not know what is happening. Some think that this will never get to them. When they see it in Embu or Tharaka, to them it is for “Tharakas”. They do not believe that this thing can extend to their areas. The Government that is supposed to help everybody understand what this thing is all about, have some level of preparedness and coordinate some of the useful and needed activities for purposes of control is not doing anything. Right now, we are talking about spread of the locust to other places. Somebody talked about Muhoroni and Kisumu. For the last two months, what has been happening in Kisumu? What is the level of preparedness of Kisumu County? What is the Government doing to ensure that the locusts do not spread to other places? Look at the way the Cabinet Secretary is responding to some of those things. Today, I saw in the newspaper that the National Youth Service has been taken to destroy locust eggs in Marsabit. You wonder how the locusts laid eggs in Marsabit yet the Government did not declare that locusts were in Marsabit. There is a big problem. We are warned of rain, famine, terrorists and other things, but nobody takes care of this until it is too late and we have wasted a lot. There will not be any food in this country. The rains have caused havoc and now locusts are causing havoc. There is no food anywhere because the food basket is under the weight of the rains that have been drenching the country. They did not harvest maize properly because the maize was drenched. There is no food. The cost of food in this country is making everything else impossible. The cost of all manner of commodities is getting higher and higher. Where will we go as a country? There is a big problem that we need to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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