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"speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member for Imenti Central wondered whether I have faith in the Kenya Meteorological services. Yes, I have faith in them. Sometimes there are doubts, and these have to do with the reliability of facilities that this departments has. I remember when I was a university student in Europe, there was a cartoon in a newspaper congratulating the weatherman; congratulations were because out of 365 predictions of the previous year, at least five were correct! Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a science that has been evolving. But, now, with satellites up there, and international collaboration, it is possible to predict almost very accurately the pattern of weather over a period of time. They are able, for example, to see storms, hurricanes and so on hours before they occur. So, Mr. Speaker, Sir, our Meteorological Department has got some of the most sophisticated equipment or instruments in this part of the world, and it works very closely with the meteorological departments of the United States and of other European countries. Yesterday, we were taken through, by the Director of the Kenya Meteorological Department, what is likely to happen between now and June. We are told, for example, that the increase in surface water temperatures over the Indian and Pacific Oceans has a bearing on the rain patterns here. So, it is possible to predict when the El-Nino or the La-Nina is going to occur. So, I think that we have a very reliable facility at the Kenya Meteorological Department. Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. MâMithiaru and, I think, hon. I. Muoki are concerned about the issue of roads in their constituencies, which have been badly affected. As I"
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