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    "id": 1102918,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I had begun moving this Bill. However, allow me to also congratulate you for assuming the Chair. I think it is a coincidence that you have gone to the Chair for the first time when I am speaking. When Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura joined the Panel and first sat on the Chair, I was on the Floor. So, there is a probably a blessing that comes when I am on the Floor. You should invite me more often when I make a request. Congratulations! I know you are up to the task and I know you have been in that position before. We hope that you will continue being objective as you guide this House in its deliberations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have been talking about the matter of Cabinet Secretaries. Allow me to inform the House that tomorrow, the Cabinet Secretaries for the National Treasury and Labour and Social Protection will attend the sitting of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare on the matter of the one-off honorarium to former councillors. That is a matter that is also close to your heart and the hearts of many Members in terms of how it is to be dealt with. I will share the credentials on the official page of the Senate for Members who will be available to join. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Disaster Risk Management Bill is extremely important. As I mentioned last week, this is a Bill whose process had begun. The Senate had passed it together with the Co-sponsor, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. However, it went through the plight of all these other Bills that had to be republished due to the court ruling in the favour of the Senate. So, this is the second time we are discussing this. In that same spate of time, our friends in the other House also took liberty to copy and paste – to plagiarise – our Bill. The Ministry has also tried to plagiarise our Bill and it is ongoing as well in the other House. However, we will stick our guns to this because this Bill has come out of a lot of discussions, research and experiences that we have gone through. Yesterday, there was a fire in Ofafa Jericho Secondary School. Five students were taken to Metropolitan Hospital for check-up after inhaling fumes. The fire started at 6.45 p.m. and the first response was an NMS fire engine at 7.50 p.m. That is an hour later. The fire was put off by the students. The fire engine did not have to do anything. Students had to take buckets and put out the fire. There was no firefighting equipment in that school. The nearest fire station could not serve these students. The school has been closed and there has been loss of many facilities, including I think 11 sections of the dormitories. Property has been lost, but we are glad that there has been no loss of life. We wish a quick recovery to those who have been injured. Personal effects of around 22 boys were completely burnt and, of course, you know how these things go. I will have to start coming around to you to give me something to take to them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is what we are trying to address in this Bill. Just a few weeks ago, it was Gikomba. There have been so many fires in Gikomba that, personally, as the Senator for Nairobi City County, I have stopped going at the response of a fire. Even the public think we enjoy to go and look as heroes at the scenes of fires. However, if we do not go, they will say that we do not care. These things put us in such awkward positions."
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