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    "id": 1009417,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1009417/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13441,
        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill for the establishment of a National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Whenever we have disasters in this country, it is always a haphazard approach to resolving issues because there is no authority that coordinates such disasters especially when we have resources distributed between the national Government and the county governments. When we have these disasters, the coordination part of it is never there yet we know there are some natural disasters that we experience year by year. Like now, we are heading to the rains. I know we shall be having disasters. We have rivers that overflow in Mwea and whenever we have these disasters, coordination between the county and the national Government is never there. By establishing a national Authority, we will have resources specific to these tasks of disaster management. The Authority will manage the resources and focus without having to wait for the different sources of disaster management. We have a disaster management unit at Nyayo House which is usually never felt in the counties and the counties have resources which they sometimes do not know how to utilise or they have not utilised them properly thereby leaving the Kenya Red Cross to carry the cross alone. It is only the Kenya Red Cross that has been out there. By having this Bill passed, and I believe it will be passed, we will have an Authority that will work with bodies like the Kenya Red Cross in a more coordinated manner than we have. I support."
}