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    "id": 1009451,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1009451/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo CWR, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladwell Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "We have lost a lot of property in terms of crops, schools, homes and hospitals due to the flooding of Lake Baringo. Moreover, as we speak, despite the challenges that the people are undergoing, it has taken forever to get the necessary assistance because we have not been having the proposed authority. We know very well that we have had a disaster management department which has not been very responsive to the kinds of disasters that are happening in the country. Furthermore, without looking at Baringo alone but the whole countrywide, we have so many things that happen unplanned. We have landslides, accidents and so many other natural disasters that happen. As we speak, in the lower part of Baringo County and Baringo South, we have 15 schools that are submerged in water. It is a real time disaster because, even as schools reopen, we do not know where the children who were going to those schools before the unfolding of that phenomenon will go. In as much as the Cabinet Secretary has travelled down there – and even today the Cabinet Secretary in charge of devolution went there – this is something that happened some months ago. It ought to have been looked into so that by now, we know where our children will be going. The truth of the matter is that we want the proposed Authority to come into being and sort out the issues that affect our people on a day-to-day basis. We also have wildlife destroying crops and killing people. The process of reporting to the authorities concerned becomes a hustle. Many people in this country have never got the right compensation for the disasters that happen to them. Therefore, this Bill is long overdue. It ought to have come earlier. However, now that it is here, it is only prudent that we do what is necessary for the proposed Authority to be established to serve the nation so that Kenyans can feel like they are in a country where leaders are really concerned about what happens to them every day. Therefore, I am in real support of this Bill. I wish it could be passed as fast as possible so that, even before we go for the next term of this Parliament, we have an Act functioning so that we are able to serve our people. With those remarks, I truly support. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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