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    "content": "except to add that this is not a new thing because this Fund had already been established under Section 18 of the National Drought Management Authority Act of 2016 and a seed amount of Kshs2 billion was set aside. However, it was later discovered that all Funds should be created under the Public Finance Management Act, which neccesitated the ammendment of the National Drought Management Authority Act in 2020 to enable these Regulation to be done under the Public Finance Management Act. So, in essence, Parliament had already passed the main Act. So, these Regulations are pursuant to the amendment of the parent Act, and they have been brought under the proper Act of Parliament. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue of drought is a matter which this country lives with. Every now and then, there has always been drought and it will always be there. Basically, this Fund is for purposes of ensuring that when drought comes up, we will have financial resources to deal with the calamity that is associated with it to alleviate the suffering of our citizens and our country. These Regulations have set two layers, namely, the national level and the county level. At the national level, the committee is supposed to be chaired by the Deputy President and deputised by the Chairperson of the Council of Governors (CoG). At the county level, the committee will be chaired by the governor and deputised by the County Commissioner. So, there will be seamless way of dealing with droughts in future. In fact, these Regulations have come at the right time so that we can put measures in place to ensure that the management will be better coordinated in future and the worse side effects of drought are arrested in time. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, basically, the Committee was to ensure there was public participation. The Committee was satisfied that thorough public participation was done before these Regulations were put in place. In addition, there was an issue of the regulatory impact assessment, in respect of which we concluded that it was not neccesary in this matter because there will be no cost on the community by these Regulations coming into force or being approved by this House. We also established that the statutory timelines were met by the body making the Regulations and tabling them at the right time. Having considered all that, we recommend, as the Chairman has said, to have these Regulations approved. I urge this House to go with the Report of the Committee. We need these Regulations. We need this Fund as a country. As we know, 70 per cent of our country is arid and we normally have issues of drought in quite a number of areas in the country. So, with these Regulations and proper management, we hope that once the Fund is established, this country will be in a better place to handle calamities when they occur in future."
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