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    "id": 1009457,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1009457/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kangogo Bowen",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support this Bill. I thank Hon. Ichung'wah for proposing this Bill. The colleagues who have spoken before me have talked a lot about disaster management in the country. Disasters have been happening since time immemorial, and they are still happening today in some parts of the country. We know that in the near future, we will have many of them. Someone said that almost three to six months ago, we had a serious disaster in West Pokot, which affected people close to Marakwet. You can imagine that we have Disaster Management Unit under the Office of the President. The Cabinet Secretary then flew up to Kitale and decided to return to Nairobi, saying that the place was inaccessible. I, together with Members of Parliament from West Pokot and Elgeyo Marakwet, managed to access the site. It was terrible. My constituency has so far lost 26 people since then. We have not traced them. The Government came for two days and then it called off the operation. So, the enactment of this Bill is very important. The proposed Authority will coordinate disaster management across the country."
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