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    "id": 1011333,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Christine Ombaka",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. This Bill is very timely because we have had many disasters in the country starting with the bomb blast, fires from fuel tankers and fires in schools. We have had lake disasters where canoes capsize. There are too many disasters. If we do not have an authority like this, we will never be able to manage them because more will come. We have not finished with them. We do not know when they will come. We need to be prepared. We need an authority such as this one to help us in the management of disasters. We have seen how disasters have been managed in this country. It has not been very nice. The timing has been poor. A disaster is an emergency. We need to rush. You cannot waste time. We are always caught unawares whereby we take too long to help the victims. Therefore, the services we render are too little too late. The victims suffer a lot more. I expect this Authority to do a lot. First of all, once it is established, it needs to be devolved so that every county can have a board that manages disasters at the county level. We may even go further down to the constituencies because disasters happen there as well. We need to have money all the time. We need to devolve it so that we have authorities going right up to the grassroots. Funds need to be put in place so that we do not have situations where we try to rush to the scene 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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