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    "id": 998547,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ahmed Kolosh",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Kolosh Mohamed",
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    "content": "represent, will not benefit like others that we neighbor, yet they face the same problem. On the issue of food security people who depend on livestock products and livestock trade are really suffering from low incomes. I also want to thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock for reallocating Kshs92 million to Wajir Livestock Training Institute. This institute was created through a presidential directive in 2016 and it will be foolhardy for students who want to study livestock issues to come to Naivasha from Marsabit, Mandera and Samburu, when all they want to study is camels and camel diseases. It is important that money has been reallocated for the expansion of that institution which is very critical for the economic development of that region. Hon. Speaker, I belong to the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security and one of the most asked questions by the Members of this House to this Committee is: When will the administrative units whether sub-counties and sub-locations that were gazetted be implemented? The Statement that has just been issued by the Chair of that Committee was about resources and the answer we normally give is: “When the National Treasury allocates the resources”, and yet we know that budgets are made in this House. The areas we represent, especially those facing insecurity issues and which border terror zones, cannot be operationalised simply because of an excuse that there is lack of resources when our people are being killed daily by terror groups from across the country. Because of time, I want to inform the Ministry of Education, because it is only COVID-19 that has been an equalizer, that schools in northern Kenya will not reopen in September because of terror issues. It is important that even as we think about COVID-19 and its effects, we also think about the problems of insecurity."
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