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    "id": 1009531,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Joyce Emanikor",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Akai Emanikor",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I wish to support this Bill and thank Hon. Ichung’wah for bringing it. It is a very critical Bill. It is important to handle all disasters from a central place or institution, especially in this age where human destruction of the eco-system and other anthropogenic activities have resulted in harsh climatic variations which have also resulted in disasters. Many of the disasters, namely fires, floods, drought and even conflicts because they are resource-based, are really from climate change. Non-Governmental Organizations and other well-wishers have really taken advantage sometimes. Even Government institutions that have been tasked with interventions on disasters have done haphazard jobs and used that as a cash-cow to get money. We have the National Drought Management Authority which is seriously underfunded. It is only handling droughts, including early warning and resultant famine and water shortage. I hope that when we come up with this National Disaster Management Authority, it is not going to face the same hurdles the National Drought Management Authority is facing. This Bill is well structured. It is going to do awareness. It is going to undertake early warning and do research and documents to coordinate responses and even capacity-build the two levels of government, the county governments and the national Government. I am sure at the Third Reading stage we are going to introduce some amendments. Particularly, I am interested in climate change and climate- induced vulnerability being incorporated in this. Although we have a Climate Change Council in the Presidency, I think that authority will be well placed to handle some of the climate change effects. Although the definition of “disaster” is done, I think we also need to be very specific on the disasters that the Authority will handle. With those few remarks, I wish to support. Thank you. 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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