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    "id": 1009555,
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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to thank Members because all the speakers who have spoken to this Bill have been in support. I also take this opportunity to ask my two good friends, the Senator for Makueni, Hon. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr; and the Senator for Nairobi, Hon. Johnson Sakaja, who had a similar Bill in the Senate – that, once we pass this Bill and it goes to the Senate, they will help to push it through so that it becomes a reality within the life of this Session of both Houses. A number of issues have been mentioned, especially issues to do with research. Hon. Jared Okelo did touch on it. A number of other Members, including Hon. Mwambu Mabongah also mentioned it. If you read Clause 5 of this Bill, you will appreciate that it provides for documentation, publishing and dissemination of all relevant disaster management data and information to all stakeholders. Therefore, there is an opportunity for this Bill, once enacted, to be used by the Authority to provide for ways and means through which research on disaster management can be done. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, many Members have spoken to the issue of coordination. More importantly, we shall be funding the proposed Authority through budgetary appropriation in this House. Therefore, the issues of accountability and proper coordination of disaster management within Government will be well taken care of. More importantly is the question of accountability. Who is accountable and who do we hold to account whenever and wherever there is a disaster? You heard cases of Marakwet sometime last year or early this year, where even the Cabinet Secretary (CS) in charge of Interior and Coordination of National Government purported not to be able to access the areas. We will, therefore, have an Authority we can hold to account – people we can specifically hold to account for their inaction, action, or acts of commission or omission. Let me, once again, thank Members and request our colleagues in the other House to support this Bill. My apologies to Hon. (Ms.) Haika Mizighi; I had hoped that she would get a minute, but it passed the attention of the Chair. With those remarks, I beg to reply."
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