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    "id": 1100531,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the best qualified response team we have in Kenya, the Recce Squad, could not leave because of the chain of command and instructions to be released. That was the first disaster. What happened next was that my friend, Munene, who was an officer, was actually killed by friendly fire from another unit of our defence forces. A GSU officer was killed by the military because of lack of coordination and their signals are different. I thank President Uhuru Kenyatta because he has really supported our officers. We were able now to have what we call joint command in the case of such. That is why when the Dusit attack happened, the response was a bit different. I remember that time Gov. ole Lenku talking about mattresses, and I do not know what. It was a mess because of lack of coordination. Madam Temporary Speaker, the main premise of this Bill then is to approach disaster risk management in a manner that seeks, first, to respond effectively in a timely manner, to any disaster or risk of disaster. Second, is to prevent the adverse effects of disasters and recover as far as may be possible the livelihoods of communities affected by disaster. Many lives change and things are never the same after many of these disasters. I will urge Members to support it. Enactment of this law will assist in efficient and effective management of disasters across the country. If you go through the Bill, Part One is just the preliminary provisions, where we have done definitions. We have defined different terms that we use. Then, we have established this authority, but then it is the national coordination. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the county, we will have County Disaster Risk Management Committees (CDRMC), where we have the leadership of the county together with those professionals who are required, and I will go through the clause that provides for that, so that there can be better coordination. It is not just the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) or the governor who is dealing with that. We will have the, county, county commissioner and the national Government part of it. Many times, the lack of coordination is between the county and national Governments at the same place. We will have the Regional Commissioner, in the case of Nairobi, or county commissioner in your county, who is trying to head west, yet the county CECM or the Chief Officer (CO) in charge of disaster management is heading east, causing more problems. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have established that a focal point for coordination. That focal point then coordinates with the national authority. Many of the things that we seek to do include early warning signals. Many disasters including environmental disasters; early warning will help. When we were in the Committee that dealt with the Solai Dam Tragedy, it is very sad that warnings had been given in advance on the matter of Solai; that the dam was going to burst its banks. But since there was no entity to which you would say the buck stops when it comes to this, whether it is Water Resources Authority (WRA) or is it National Environment Management Authority of Kenya (NEMA) or the county government--- What happened is the classic case of ‘there was something that anybody"
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