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    "id": 981588,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/981588/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kangema, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Clement Kigano",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Clement Muturi Kigano",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I must say I congratulate my colleague, the Member for Tharaka, for bringing this matter. It was long overdue. There are certain factors that point at very serious negligence on the part of our Government regarding the locusts. They cannot claim it is an act of God, because if you Google, you will find that as early as November, FAO gave early warning that with the rains, there was going to be an onslaught of locusts. The US contributed Ksh1 billion to FAO, targeting locusts invasion in East Africa. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, 40 to 50 years ago, we founded the Desert Locust Control Organisation of Eastern Africa and Kenya contributes about a third of revenue funding to that organisation. There is no question of shortage of funds here. We have FAO and the United Nations Standing Coordinating Committee on Locusts. We have not been told that there was a shortage of funding. It is purely a question of negligence. The first thing we should be looking for is comprehensive remedy either through a committee or commission of inquiry to inquire into this aspect so that it does not recur."
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